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TWO'S A CROWD.(The Double)(Book Review)
The Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago, born in 1922, has not let the Nobel Prize, which he received in 1998, slow him down. He was a late starter in the lists of fiction, having been a civil servant and sometime journalist to the age of fifty. He found his groove in the baroque magic-realist historical novel "Baltasar and Blimunda" (1982 in Portugal, when he turned sixty; 1987 in the U.S.), and combines, in the novels of his productive eighth decade--"Blindness" (1995, 1997), "All the Names" (1997, 1999), and "The Cave" (2000, 2002)--fantastic premises with a relaxed, disarmingly direct style and a quizzical, respectful interest in everyday life. His prose is open to ...
- Seeing double, glacially.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times November 7, 2004 700+ words
...apartment of her lover, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso, a fussy schoolteacher...book with a secret, and Tertuliano Maximo Afonso's plan to unravel it...has recommended to him, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso (curiously, the protagonist...
- FICTION; Saramago offers a double twist on life's ironies.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Book...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Parker, Cherie October 10, 2004 700+ words
...meditates on dark and frightening possibilities, takes on the legend of the doppelganger in "The Double." Tertuliano Maximo Afonso, a somewhat depressed secondary-school history teacher, accepts a casual recommendation to rent a certain...
- Jose Saramago. The Double.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Monteiro, George January 1, 2006 700+ words
...characteristics, measurements, dates, are all a match, indicating that in virtually all apparent matters Tertuliano Maximo Afonso and Antonio Claro (professionally "Daniel Santa-Clara") are duplicates of each other. Jose Saramago...
- All in the asides.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Graham, Philip September 1, 2004 700+ words
...novel Jose Saramago dispenses with such leaps. Instead he fills the lulls in the life of his hapless hero, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso, with intimate, droll authorial digressions. The 1998 Nobel Laureate cannot bear to miss an opportunity to...
