A riot of things

A collection of short stories by Jose Saramago, "Rebellion of Things" is six intense stories that combine satire, careful analysis of social processes, and brilliant fantasy.

Each story is a scathing and at the same time bitter look at life under a dictatorship: "The Chair" tells about an all-powerful dictator and his inglorious end, "Embargo" the will of man is subordinated to his material needs, "Reflow" an unnamed king tries to eradicate death, and in Kafka's "Things", the health and even the lives of the townspeople are at risk, because the things around them refuse to perform their functions.

Absurd, lyrical and ironic, these stories create an atmosphere of approaching the limit, the last line, next to which humanity stands. The stories in the collection move in cycles, combining separate fragments into one common manifesto.

"Rebellion of Things", combining the poetic and political, demonstrates a masterful and original writer, outlining the expressive style of Juze Saramago - one of the most important writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

José Saramagou is the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, which he received for his books of parables, full of imagination, compassion and irony, which help us understand the elusive reality.