by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420469454
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«Las intermitencias de la muerte» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in paperback (274 pages, in Spanish).
In a nameless country, death decides to stop causing fatalities, and the population discovers that living forever has unforeseen consequences: an endless old age, elderly people considered a burden, and secret pacts to make death return to its trade. Saramago turns this premise into a parable about the finitude of existence.
Published in 2005, it belongs to the Biblioteca Saramago collection. Its author, José Saramago, received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Recommended for readers aged 16 and over interested in literary fiction and stories with a philosophical undertone.
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
