by José Saramago · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420430713
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«Todos los nombres» is the novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago, published in 1998 by Alfaguara in paperback (323 pages, in Spanish).
Don José, a lonely clerk at the Civil Registry, collects news about famous people and decides to complete them with the files in his office. The hobby leads him to break the rules and to undertake the search for a woman of whom he only knows the name. A reflection on identity, bureaucracy and individual dignity.
Translation by Pilar del Río; the cover indicates the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for José Saramago.
For readers of literary fiction, admirers of José Saramago and contemporary Portuguese narrative.
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
