- Fiction, psychological, Fiction, Doppelgängers, Identity (Psychology)
A divorced, depressed history teacher becomes obsessed with pursuing a man who looks exactly like he did five years ago after seeing him in a video recommended by a friend.
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Spare, grave, prestige and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- José Saramago
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 324
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, THE HARVILL PRESS, Companhia das Letras
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Spanish, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9780156032582
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“THE MAN WHO HAS JUST COME INTO THE SHOP TO RENT A video bears on his identity card a most unusual name, a name with a classical flavor that time has staled, neither more nor less than Tertuliano Máximo Afonso.”
José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ComSE GColCa (Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ðɨ ˈso(w).zɐ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago)
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