Double Pa - Couverture souple

Saramago, Jose

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156032589 ISBN 13 : 9780156032582

Editeur : Mariner, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Saramago Jose

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The inspiration for the major motion picture "Enemy" starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Denis Villeneuve   Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video. He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. He sleeps badly.

Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" (The Boston Globe). Saramago displays his remarkable talent in this haunting tale of appearance versus reality.

Revue de presse :

PRAISE FOR THE DOUBLE

"In varying proportions [Saramago] is melancholy, funny, scary and socially enraged. Such elements have rarely worked better together than in The Double. It's tempting to think of it as his masterpiece."--The New York Times

"Saramago has the gift of gab. Our impression is of a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any impossibility to life by hurling words at it."--John Updike, The New Yorker

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0156032589
• ISBN 13: 9780156032582
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336