by José Saramago · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466318952
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«Las intermitencias de la muerte» is the literary fiction novel by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
In a country whose name is not revealed, death stops acting and no one dies. The initial euphoria turns to chaos: without death, old age is eternal and society seeks means to force death to act. Saramago turns the suspension of death into a reflection on finitude and the transient versus the eternal.
José Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998; the work was originally published as As Intermitências da Morte.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary fiction seeking a work with a philosophical backdrop about life and death.
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."
