by José Saramago · faguara. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447315215
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«Todos los nombres» is the psychological novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago, in hardcover (190 pages, in Spanish).
Don José, a lonely clerk at the Civil Registry, collects newspaper clippings about famous people and completes their files with registry documents. When he discovers the name of an unknown woman, he becomes obsessed with finding her; that search disrupts his routine and confronts him with bureaucracy and his own solitude.
Originally published in Portuguese as «Todos os Nomes», this Spanish edition belongs to the Nueva Narrativa collection.
Suitable for reading clubs and for readers of literary fiction interested in the work of José Saramago.
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."
