By Gilles Pastor
Half-man, half-horse – the text draws a parallel between man and animal. It divides them. It shows how they live together.
The creature comes to life within the audience.
In the Musée des Moulages, statues look like waiting for eternal life.
Trunks, capitals, heads, men, gods, goddesses, a plasterworks forest where the last centaur would have found a shelter.
Saramago’s plain and sober style is intensely poetic. Portuguese writer Saramago won the Nobel Prize of literature in 1998.
The Centaur was published in Lisboa in 1978 in the text collection Objecto Quase.
Centaur is an allegoric story about the identity of the last Centaur, lost in our contemporary society.
Between truth and fiction, half man, half horse, the centaur is hiding himself with the secret hope of getting free. Story of a restless wandering, wandering of a survivor.
