by José Saramago · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467218954
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«Las intermitencias de la muerte» is the novel by José Saramago published in 2006 by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (258 pages, in Spanish).
When death stops acting, no one dies and society falls into existential chaos, with unexpected consequences in everyday life. José Saramago turns that fantastic premise into a reflection on immortality, the fragility of life, and the human condition.
Translation from the original Portuguese («As intermitências da morte») by Pilar del Río. Edition with dust jacket.
For readers of contemporary fiction and novels, and for followers of José Saramago who value stories with a philosophical background.
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."
