by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420461717
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In 'The Double,' José Saramago introduces us to Tertuliano Máximo Afonso, a man who discovers that there is a person identical to him in his same city. This premise raises profound reflections on identity, individuality, and the possibility of perfect doubles existing. Through an innovative narrative, Saramago turns the narrator into an active character, inviting the reader to question the limits of reality and the nature of existence. A novel that reads with the avidity of an intrigue story, but that immerses us in the essential questions of life.
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."
