José Saramago, Portuguese writer, born in 1922, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, is one of the great authors and I would also philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first. With a personal style, Therefore its content and by using the syntax, his books are a little uncomfortable to read , but then enter the game and you adapt to their scores.

The protagonist of The Double is a school teacher, close to 40 years old, a life of mediocrity and gray, one day discovers a man who is just like him: an exact copy. Here begins the story: curious to know who this man, get to know… The story captures the reader, Saramago is gradually creating the interest in discovering more about the subject. As you progress is picking thriller dyes; increases intrigue, but the author was privileged to take breaks: question the individual identity of the person, fate, the existence of common sense, male-female relations, mother-child and challenge the characters.

The pace accelerates as you near the end of the novel. The ending is unexpected, although logical and very credible to be the end point of something that can never happen. Saramago I like for this feature, from a crazy idea as to discover another person physically equal to the protagonist, the plot unfolds in a completely logical and humane, without resorting to surreal situations to resolve the argument.

Although Saramago is against bring their novels to film, in another of his novels, Blindness, accept that it was adapted to film, with the title of Blindness (Blindly). This film was commissioned to open the Cannes Film Festival 2008. Is expected 27 February 2009 release in Spain, I encourage you to read the novel before seeing the film.

The Double I felt very cinematic novel. Moreover duplicate man in question is an actor, I would view it a certain grace in film, especially the work of the protagonist, two identical men playing out but different inside.