Soon the two are in a competition that involves sex and power.
The actor, a rather sleazy fellow, resents Afonso's presence, as if his identical appearance were a sort of ontological theft. Finally tracking the man down, he suggests a meeting. Soon Afonso is feverishly renting videos, trying to find the actor's name, while hiding his project from his suspicious colleague, his lover and his mother. The video itself is a forgettable comedy, but the actor who plays the minor role of hotel clerk (so minor he isn't listed in the credits) is Afonso's physical double. On the suggestion of a colleague, one night Máximo watches a video that changes everything. Middle-aged, divorced and in a relationship with a woman, Maria da Paz, he is bored with life. Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a history teacher in an unnamed metropolis (presumably Lisbon). In 2021 it came to light that many lyrics of singer-songwriter Noel Gallagher of Oasis bear a strong resemblance to various lines from the novel, leading fans to believe that the book may have served as a device of lyrical inspiration throughout his songwriting career, in particular in the 1996 song 'Underneath The Sky'.The double motif, which has fascinated authors as diverse as Poe, Dostoyevski and Nabokov, is revived in this surprisingly listless novel by Portuguese master Saramago. A Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese co-production, it was directed by Dutch director George Sluizer. The premise of the novel is that the Iberian Peninsula has broken off the European continent and is floating freely in the Atlantic Ocean bureaucrats around the world are forced to deal with the traumatic effects, while five characters from across Portugal and Spain are drawn ever closer to one another, embarking on a journey within the peninsula as the landmass journeys itself.Ī Spanish-language film version entitled La Balsa de Piedra was released in 2002. It was written in 1986, and was translated into English by Giovanni Pontiero in 1994. The Stone Raft ( Portuguese: A Jangada de Pedra) is a novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago.
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