Saramago's novel explores the nature of individuality and examines the fear and insecurity that arise when our singularity comes under threat, when even a wife cannot tell the original from the imposter. Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket Edition: First US Edition First Printing Publisher: Orlando, Austin, New York, San Diego. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. Wherein lies our identity? An existential thriller and work of literature that takes on the essential questions of life Saramago's novel explores the nature of individuality and examines the fear and insecurity that arise when ou. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. “It’s tempting to think of as his masterpiece.Wherein lies our identity? An existential thriller and work of literature that takes on the essential questions of life The inspiration for the film Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Denis Villeneuve, The Double is a timeless novel from a writer John Updike described in The New Yorker as “like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any impossibility to life by hurling words at it.” Can we be reduced to our outward appearance, rather than the sum of our experiences?
As he roots out the man’s identity, what begins as a whimsical chase becomes a probing investigation into what makes us human.
But during the night, when he is awakened by noise, he finds the VCR replaying the video and watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years earlier, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen.Īgainst his own better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. In Portuguese, the title is literally 'The Duplicated Man.' It was translated into English and published as The Double in 2004. A “wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality” from a Nobel Prize–winning author who pushes fiction to its very limits ( The Boston Globe).Īs this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. The Double (Portuguese: O Homem Duplicado) is a 2002 novel by Portuguese author José Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
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