The Lives of Things
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Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and uncanny hallucinations, this collection of Jos� Saramago's earliest stories from the beginning of his writing career attests to the novelist's imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Each tale is a wicked, surreal take on life under dictatorship: in 'Embargo' a man drives around a city that is slowly running out of petrol; 'The Chair' recounts what happens when dictator Salazar falls off his chair and dies; in the Kafkaesque 'Things' the life of a civil servant is threatened as objects start to go missing.
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- ISBN13 9781781684115
- Pages 256
- Released 2013
- Publisher Verso
- Format Elektronisk medie
- Language English