In Portuguese, the title is literally "The Duplicated Man." It was translated into English and published as The Double in 2004. 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, 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 " 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.The Double ( Portuguese: O Homem Duplicado) is a 2002 novel by Portuguese author José Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. It's tempting to think of it as his masterpiece."- The New York Times "Saramago has the gift of gab. Such elements have rarely worked better together than in The Double. from a writer who seems to produce masterpiece after masterpiece, Saramago''s Observations Come in Small Bursts That Lift Themselves Up in Startling Truth and Beauty., What satisfying pleasure it is to be told this cautionary tale by a teller at the peak of his wisdom and sly wit., PRAISE FORTHE 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 " 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, THE DOUBLE begins by intriguing us, proceeds to entertain, charm and engage, and ultimately manages to disturb., a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to life, PRAISE FOR THE DOUBLE "In varying proportions is melancholy, funny, scary and socially enraged. Saramago's Observations Come in Small Bursts That Lift Themselves Up in Startling Truth and Beauty., THE DOUBLE is another haunting book.
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