by Jose Saramago · Editorial Caminho · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722111379
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«Todos os Nomes» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Editorial Caminho in paperback (279 pages, in Portuguese).
José, an employee of the Civil Registry, drags a grey life among birth and death records. To escape the tedium, he collects clippings about famous figures, until he finds the record of an anonymous woman and embarks on an obsessive search that confronts him with questions about identity, solitude and chance.
The work was originally published in 1997 and belongs to the collection O campo da palabra. José Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
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."
