The Double - José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa • BookLikes (ISBN:0151010404)

The Double

by: Margaret Jull Costa (author) José Saramago (author)

3.62 65

Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9780151010400 (0151010404)

Publish date: October 4th 2004

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pages no: 324

Edition language: English

Category:

Novels, Literature, European Literature, Cultural, Magical Realism, Nobel Prize, Portugal, Portuguese Literature

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Nymphadora's Attic rated it

11 years ago

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Coming from (probably) the most celebrated Portuguese author, - winner of the Nobel prize for Literature - this was a bit of a set down. I do appreciate him as a writer ever since I had to read, for Secondary School, “Baltazar and Blimunda”. His writing is unique, albeit hard to merge into, and his ...

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Book Reviews, Analysis & Possible Spoilers rated it

11 years ago

http://benamullins.booklikes.com Book Reviews, Analysis & Possible Spoilers 0.0 Trying to write like Saramago to appreciate him more

text Trying to write like Saramago to appreciate him more

A journey into a Saramago novel is a unique experience, In what way, might I ask, Well for one he eschews the modern, and ancient, conventions of separating out dialogue into new paragraphs, That could be a bit confusing, There is more, he also eschews the use of quotation marks, which can make it h...

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All the World's a Page rated it

12 years ago

http://davidlavieri.booklikes.com All the World's a Page 2.0

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I did not really enjoy Saramago's The Double. To begin with, it's a sloppy handling of a theme which has been done over-and-over, and better done at that: Dickin's The Tale of Two Cities, Poe's "William Wilson," Nabokov's Despair and Dostoyevsky's The Double were all better handlings of the doppelgä...

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Timmeloche rated it

14 years ago

http://Timmeloche.booklikes.com Timmeloche 4.0 The Double

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This is definitely not for the average reader. At times it can be difficult to slog through as you read about a depressed history teacher and his ponderings on monk fish. Frankly, the main character is as unlikable as he is boring but it is his discoveries through the story that are engaging. If ...

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