by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420465661
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«El hombre duplicado» is the contemporary fiction novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in paperback (408 pages, in Spanish).
Tertuliano Máximo Afonso, a history teacher, discovers at thirty-eight that a man identical to him and with no family connection lives in his same city. His obsession with finding his double leads to a game of identities and questions about what makes us unique: whether voice or gestures can be repeated in another person.
Translated from Portuguese by Pilar del Río; original title: O homem duplicado. This edition belongs to the Biblioteca Saramago collection and its cover indicates the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction interested in psychological novels about identity; suitable reading from age 16.
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."
