by José Saramago · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429745184
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«Tots els noms» is the contemporary fiction novel by José Saramago, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (288 pages, in Catalan).
Don José, a clerk at the Civil Registry, relieves his loneliness by collecting news about famous people. To verify them, he secretly consults the archive files and breaks the rules. That investigation drags him into an unexpected adventure. Saramago reflects on identity, bureaucracy and human dignity.
Catalan translation by Xavier Pàmies Giménez. The Portuguese original, «Todos os Nomes», was published in 1997. The volume belongs to the El Balancí collection.
Recommended reading for those interested in contemporary fiction and in the work of Nobel Prize winner 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."
