![]() ![]() While many celebrate overcoming humanity’s longtime foe, others whose livelihoods depend on death express concern. ![]() ![]() On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. The style of the novel largely ignores traditional rules of grammar, disuses punctuation in most sentences and quotations for speech, and reads more as a stream of consciousness. One of the central themes of the novel is how society relates to death in both ways, and how death interacts with the people she is meant to execute. Published in Britain as Death at Intervals, the abstract and allegorical story revolves around death as an incident as well as a female character that can express herself and change form. Death with Interruptions is the 2005 speculative fiction novel written by Portuguese author Jose Saramago. ![]()
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