by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420442952
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All the Names is a novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago, published in 2001. The story follows Don José, a clerk at the Central Registry, who becomes obsessed with a woman of whom he only knows her name. The novel explores themes such as identity, bureaucracy, and human nature. A moving and reflective work by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature.
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."
