Written by Portuguese author José Saramago in 2002. Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is
the protagonist of a mental labyrinth which exhorts the reader to accompany him to get
to the bottom of his identity.
A History teacher whose existence passes by in a monotonous daily life,
one day finds out that there’s a man who looks just like him, living in the same
city he spends his peaceful days.
The shock then, impels him in an obsessive way, to start out a
searching in order to obtain his double’s identity: Antonio Claro, who seems to
enjoy a more exciting life, he’s an actor.
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