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Las intermitencias de la muerte

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En un país cuyo nombre no será mencionado, se produce algo nunca visto desde el principio del mundo: la muerte decide suspender su trabajo letal, la gente deja de morir. La euforia colectiva se desata, pero muy pronto dará paso a la desesperación y al caos. Sobran los motivos. Si es cierto que las personas ya no mueren, eso no significa que el tiempo se haya detenido. El destino de los humanos será una vejez eterna. Se buscarán maneras de forzar a la muerte a matar aunque no lo quiera, se corromperán las conciencias en los «acuerdos de caballeros» explícitos o tácitos entre el poder político, las mafias y las familias, los ancianos serán detestados por haberse convertido en estorbos irremovibles. Hasta el día en que la muerte decide volver... Arrancando una vez más de una proposición contraria a la evidencia de los hechos corrientes, José Saramago desarrolla una narrativa de gran fecundidad literaria, social y filosófica que sitúa en el centro la perplejidad del hombre ante la impostergable finitud de la existencia. Parábola de la corta distancia que separa lo efímero de lo eterno, Las intermitencias de la muerte bien podría terminar tal como empieza: «Al día siguiente no murió nadie.»

Author portrait of Jose Saramago

Jose Saramago

José Saramago is a Portuguese writer and journalist born on November 16, 1922 in the Arinaga region (central Portugal) to a family of poor farmers. * He began his life as a locksmith, then as a journalist and translator, before devoting his time entirely to literature. He published his first novel, The Land of Sin, in 1947, and stopped writing for nearly twenty years. In 1966, he published his first poetry collection, Possible Poems. He has published about twenty books and is considered by critics to be one of the most important writers in Portugal thanks to his polyphonic novels, which retrace Portuguese history with a subtle irony close to the style adopted by Voltaire. - A member of the Portuguese Communist Party since 1959. - Received the International PEN Club Prize in 1982 and the Portuguese Camويسes Prize in 1995 - In October 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, for his novel The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - He was skeptical about the official account of the events September 11, 2001 - Saramago passed away on May 18, 2010

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