First edition (publ. Moraes)

Objecto Quasi is a Portuguese collection of short stories by author José Saramago published in 1978.[1]

It was translated to English in 2012 under the title The Lives of Things

In 2010, a cinema adaptation of one of its stories was released under the name Embargo. In "The Chair", a dictator's seat is slowly being eroded until he collapses on the floor – a clear reference to the fall of Salazar, the Portuguese dictator. In the stories, men and things form the world, whose dynamics are shaken by distance or disunity.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "José Saramago - Autobiography". Nobel Prize. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  2. ↑ Maués, Flamarion (2020). "Edição, política e ditadura: dois livros de oposição da Editora Alfa-Omega". História (São Paulo). 39. doi:10.1590/1980-4369e2020003. ISSN 1980-4369.


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