The Double - Rilegato

Saramago, Jose; Costa, Margaret Jull

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ISBN 10: 0151010404 ISBN 13: 9780151010400

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004

Riassunto

Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night, noises in his apartment wake him. He goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video, and as he watches in astonishment he sees a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like the man he was five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face. He sleeps badly.

Against his own better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he establishes the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a dark meditation on identity and, perhaps, on the crass assumption behind cloning-that we are merely our outward appearance rather than the sum of our experiences.

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PRAISE FOR THE CAVE
"Yet another triumph, albeit a typically melancholy one, for Portugal's, or even the world's, greatest living novelist." -The Washington Post Book World
"[Saramago] has the power to throw a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects, an eerily and impossibly prolonged moment of clarity that illuminates details beyond the power of sunshine to reveal." -Chicago Tribune

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José Saramago is one of the most acclaimed writers in the world today. The author of numerous novels, in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0151010404
• ISBN 13: 9780151010400
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 324