1. Las intermitencias de la muerte
(Spanish Edition) by José
Saramago
Forever Young ?
In a country whose name is not mentioned, something never before seen
since the beginning of time happens: death decides to stop its unflagging
track and people stop dying. From that moment on, the destiny of human
kind will be to live eternally. A short period of euphoria is followed by
despair and chaos. People search for ways to trick death into killing; the
elderly are seen with the hatred reserved only for that which we cannot
alter. Nobel Prize winner (1998) Jose Saramago offers a literary nar rative
that centers on human perplexity when faced with one of the unavoidable
realities of our existence --death.
Saramago may be regarded as one the most invenctive authors of these
days. He is a true fable maker; his febrile imagination and the fascinating
issues he carves in relief in each one of his works, become an invitation to
undertake his lectures as if we undertake a prodigious journey.
Imagine there is a country in which the people just dont die. At first glance,
it might sound seductor and even desirable, but when the number of
members of the third ages population increases notably, it raises a set of
unexpected dramatic situations.
The main problem is to deal with the old Faustian myth; to live forever, but
Saramago goes far beyond and makes a sharp inflection about the dilema
this means.
The happy ending should not to turn our attention about the remarkable
fact the death is part of the life, and all the efforts made by our post
modernist society in order to guarantee us a major longevity, invites us to
think the question be put on this way: To live more or to live better?
I rather live a short and productive life instead of a large and improductive
existence, signed by the triviality and frivolity.
We are what we do Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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