by José Saramago · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422671817
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«Todos los nombres» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (314 pages, in Spanish).
Don José, an employee of the General Registry of Civil Records, collects news about famous people and cross-checks it with the files in his office. This hobby forces him to break the rules and live adventures, while Saramago builds a Kafkaesque bureaucratic world and reflects on identity and human nature.
This novel by the Portuguese writer José Saramago was originally published in 1997 as «Todos os Nomes»; the Spanish-language edition is from 1998.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs, as well as followers of José Saramago's work.
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."
