![]() ![]() The inspiration for the film Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Denis Villeneuve, The Double is a timeless novel from a writer John Updike described in The New Yorker as “like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any impossibility to life by hurling words at it.” ![]() Can we be reduced to our outward appearance, rather than the sum of our experiences? ![]() As he roots out the man’s identity, what begins as a whimsical chase becomes a probing investigation into what makes us human. But during the night, when he is awakened by noise, he finds the VCR replaying the video and watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years earlier, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen.Īgainst his own better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. A “wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality” from a Nobel Prize–winning author who pushes fiction to its very limits ( The Boston Globe).Īs this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. ![]()
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