Joseph Walser's Machine

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Joseph Walser’s Machine (2004) is the second book in Gonçalo M. Tavares’s series “The Kingdom”: four novels connected by a handful of overlapping characters, a number of recurring themes, and, perhaps most importantly, a strikingly odd style. The third novel in the series, Jerusalem, was awarded the prestigious Saramago Prize in Portugal, and the final novel, Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique, was recently awarded the prize for Best Foreign Book in France, which has only ever been awarded to one other Portuguese-language novelist, António Lobo Antunes in 1997. Tavares’s work has also been championed by the old guard of European novelists, including Jacques Roubaud, who read his own translation of Tavares’s stories in an Oulipo meeting, and José Saramago, who heaped hyperbolic praise on the younger writer, stating that in the history of the novel in Portugal there is very much “a before and after Gonçalo M. Tavares.”

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