Yale Review of Books - Shadows on the Wall. Before long, the mysterious sound of digging can be heard beneath the Center, and what the family discovers will change their lives forever. But just as quickly, the order is cancelled and Cipriano, his daughter, and his son-in-law have no choice but to move to the Center where Marçal works as a security guard. He and Marta decide to try their hand at making clay figurines and astonishingly the Center places an order for hundreds. One day, the Center, literally the center of commerce in the story, cancels its order for Cipriano's pottery, leaving the elderly potter's future in doubt. The story concerns an elderly potter named Cipriano Algor, his daughter Marta, and his son-in-law Marçal. A wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality from a Nobel. It was published in Portuguese in 2000 and in English in 2002. Read The Double A Novel by Jos Saramago available from Rakuten Kobo. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. (Oct.The Cave ( Portuguese: A caverna) is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago who received the Nobel Prize in 1998. This semi-allegory is certainly not one of Saramago's more noteworthy offerings. Afonso has several hokey "dialogues" with "common sense" his situation, which might be the germ for an excellent short story, is stretched out far beyond the length it deserves. Narrating in his usual long, rambling sentences, Saramago suspends his characters and their actions in fussy authorial asides. Soon the two are in a competition that involves sex and power. The actor, a rather sleazy fellow, resents Afonso's presence, as if his identical appearance were a sort of ontological theft. The scene in which Stella adopts her white persona is a tour de force of doubling and confusion. Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowability of other people and the scourge of colorism. Finally tracking the man down, he suggests a meeting. All this is expertly paced, unfurling before the book is half finished a reader can guess what is coming. Soon Afonso is feverishly renting videos, trying to find the actor's name, while hiding his project from his suspicious colleague, his lover and his mother. The video itself is a forgettable comedy, but the actor who plays the minor role of hotel clerk (so minor he isn't listed in the credits) is Afonso's physical double. As this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano Mximo Afonso is a.
On the suggestion of a colleague, one night Máximo watches a video that changes everything. Read The Double by Jos Saramago with a free trial.
Middle-aged, divorced and in a relationship with a woman, Maria da Paz, he is bored with life. Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a history teacher in an unnamed metropolis (presumably Lisbon). The double motif, which has fascinated authors as diverse as Poe, Dostoyevski and Nabokov, is revived in this surprisingly listless novel by Portuguese master Saramago.
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