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The Lives of Things collects Jose Saramago's early experiments with the short story form, attesting to the young novelist's imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and Kafkaesque hallucinations, these stories explore the horror and repression that paralyzed Portugal under the Salazar regime and pay tribute to human resilience in the face of injustice and institutionalized tyranny. Beautifully written and deeply unsettling, The Lives of Things illuminates the development of Saramago's prose and records the genesis of themes that resound throughout his novels.
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No one writes quite like Saramago, so solicitous and yet so magnificently free. He works as though cradling a thing of magic. --Steven Poole, Guardian
Easily bears comparison to Calvino and Borges, albeit with a more politically astute edge... a welcome reminder of why he deserved the Nobel. --Scotland on Sunday
Bittersweet beauty but also a wickedly mischievous sense of humour ... parables in human compassion, celebrating the triumph of the human spirit. --Irish Times
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JOSE SARAMAGO (1922 - 2010), Nobel Laureate, novelist, playwright and journalist, was one of the world's most influential writers. His numerous books include the bestselling All the Names, Blindness, and The Cave.
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- PublisherVerso Books
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1781680868
- ISBN 13 9781781680865
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages160
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