A man asks for a ship to find the "unknown island." But what is this unknown island? How can each of us recognize it? How do we recognize ourselves?
A dictator falls from his chair. A driver tries to find gasoline during an oil crisis and transmits his nervousness to his car. A king tries to exclude death from his territory. Some objects rebel in the chillingly bureaucratic community of humans.
A centaur longs for its mythical past. And a teenage grudge seeks revenge on adults for their oppressive control. Seven stories where the real invades the fantastic, and vice versa. Seven stories about that part of reality that escapes all logical processes.
Seven short stories spanning 20 years, an essential stop for understanding the art of the great Nobel Prize-winning author.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- José Saramago
- Publisher
- Ekdoseis Kastanioti
- Original Title
- O conto da ilha desconhecida objecto quase
- Publishers
- Kastaniotis Editions
- Type
- Classical Literature, Prose
- Subtitle
- Short stories
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 162
- Release Date
- 4/2014
- Publication Date
- 2014
- Dimensions
- 13x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789600356779
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