Sebastian Smee

Method acting with a vengeance

issue 21 August 2004

  • The Double

    José Saramago

    Harvill, pp. 292

Two of a good thing is usually better than one — unless, of course, the good thing in question is you. Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago’s new novel, The Double, is built around just such a premise. His main character, a mildly depressed history teacher called Tertuliano M

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