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  • A novel both philosophical and social satire  

    The intermissions of Death (Paperback)
    "The next day, no one died." Both first and last sentence of the novel style mastered but also playful. Two main parts: - Social satire of the upheavals triggered by the fact of the suspension of death and thus keeping alive many dying; - Philos
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  • Large and small dead  

    The intermissions of Death (Paperback)
    More than a novel, "the intermissions of death" in the form of a philosophical tale. What would life without death? The death paradox of course is that if it ceases to exist, it starts to be desirable. It is feared the only addition, the same de
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  • Let die  

    The intermissions of Death (Paperback)
    Behind a story without speaking, there is still a large ethical and philosophical question in Saramago. There it is to worry about the absence of death would we be all too pleased that a first instinctive reaction suggests.
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  • A verbal river that carries you ......... a treat!  

    The intermissions of Death (Paperback)
    If I had been struggling to immerse myself in the beginning of the journey of the elephant which ultimately had rained me; there is this habit? But I swallowed up in this book to the great and original story, full of meaning, critical, and funny. Sar
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  • Madam death  

    The intermissions of Death (Paperback)
    In an unnamed country, nobody dies. Immortality initially causes euphoria but soon even despair and chaos. Through various situations the author makes us think about death. Necessary but regulated to not disturb. The book ends with a monologue of Mad
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  • a new life for the mower  

    The intermissions of Death (Paperback)
    As always with this author, you have to get used to his style, confusing phraseology, but once immersed "in the bath", the story becomes magical, and keeps in suspense until the fin.Les saw incredible situations quickly to analise possible when
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  • The river of words  

    The intermissions of Death (Paperback)
    What a pleasure to open the first page of this book, get carried away by the river of words. Everything is original, theme, construction, characters. A humorous book finally on the theme of death. And what lesson vocabulary! Nobel laureate Saramago w
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  • Death as you have ever read?  

    The intermissions of Death (Paperback)
    not to all hands a look with some humor about the inevitable moment beautiful fable about the failings of our society
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  • Sublime 29 January 1187  

    The intermissions of Death (Paperback)
    Magnificent novel about death. It was daring ... How to talk about death with humor, imagination, irony? Mr Saramago did ... The story is really well written .It just takes getting used to the style of the writer: long sentences, long and endless. Yo
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  • Always great! 4  

    The intermissions of Death (Paperback)
    José Saramago's novel begins with "the next day, no one died." In one country (unnamed) without sea and with crown, in a continent (no name), 10 million people are facing a conundrum: nobody dies between their borders. And this will upset the fo
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