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The Lives of Things : Short Stories by José Saramago; Giovanni Pontiero is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Lives of Things : Short Stories about?

The Lives of Things collects José 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.

Who reads The Lives of Things : Short Stories?

Author

José Saramago; Giovanni Pontiero

Publisher

Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844678785

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction