by José Saramago · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467204148
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«El hombre duplicado» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (363 pages, in Spanish).
Tertuliano Afonso, a history teacher with a grey, routine life, discovers by chance in a film a man physically identical to him. From that moment, the certainty of being unique wavers and he becomes obsessed with locating his double, while doubt corrodes his identity and his daily life turns into a disquieting game of mirrors.
Translation by Pilar del Río; original Portuguese «O homem duplicado». This Spanish edition was published in 2004.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in identity and the theme of the double.
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."
