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The Double: (Enemy)
José Saramago
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Description for The Double: (Enemy)
Paperback. What happens when Deadline M-ximo Afonso, a 38-year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him on every physical detail, but not related by blood at all. And what happens when each of these men attempt to investigate each other's lives? Translator(s): Costa, Margaret Jull. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224.
Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. Saramago's novel explores the nature of individuality and examines the fear and insecurity that arise when our singularity comes under threat, when even a wife cannot tell the original from the imposter...
Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. Saramago's novel explores the nature of individuality and examines the fear and insecurity that arise when our singularity comes under threat, when even a wife cannot tell the original from the imposter...
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099461654
SKU
V9780099461654
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About José Saramago
José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel ... Read more
Reviews for The Double: (Enemy)
Quite unlike anything else
London Review of Books
A Borgesian fable with a marvellous flavour all its own
Phillip Hensher, Books of the Year
Spectator
A comic and profound exploration of the self... A uniquely seductive writer
Daily Telegraph
The Double is Saramago at his most practised and polished. It is philosophy and ... Read more
London Review of Books
A Borgesian fable with a marvellous flavour all its own
Phillip Hensher, Books of the Year
Spectator
A comic and profound exploration of the self... A uniquely seductive writer
Daily Telegraph
The Double is Saramago at his most practised and polished. It is philosophy and ... Read more