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Original Title:	Todos os Nomes
ISBN:	0156010593 (ISBN13: 9780156010597)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Sr. José
Literary Awards:	Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (2000), Mikael Agricola -palkinto (2001)

All the Names

José Saramago

Paperback | Pages: 245 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 16086 Users | 1201 Reviews

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Title	:	All the Names
Author	:	José Saramago
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 245 pages
Published	:	October 5th 2001 by Mariner Books (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Cultural. Portugal. Novels. European Literature. Portuguese Literature. Nobel Prize. Magical Realism

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Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death, that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him. Obsessed, Senhor José sets off to follow the thread that may lead him to the woman-but as he gets closer, he discovers more about her, and about himself, than he would ever have wished.

The loneliness of people's lives, the effects of chance, the discovery of love-all coalesce in this extraordinary novel that displays the power and art of José Saramago in brilliant form.

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My first book by Jose Saramago, and his style was a surprise for me.This book explores, beside other important themes of interest (search for meaning, loneliness, bureaucratic absurdity), all sorts of odd human emotions: dead reckoning, nighthawk, sonder etc., only they are not named, you just experience them through the character of Senhor Jose. And some could easily be invented with this book as reference. Reading this felt claustrophobic and suffocating at some point, given the phrase

The novel depicts a man being borne down by his life and everything around him. By more and more paper all around him. I felt the same way reading it. I couldn't get through it. I tried. Good gods, I tried. I knew there was a lot going on, and I was seeing the craft at work... I /knew/ it was going somewhere.. but I just couldn't finish it. I've tried four times now. It is still on my bookshelf with a bookmark somewhere in the last seventy pages or so. It is /so/ depressing, /so/ heavy, and it

First reading: This was one of those reading experiences where you find a novel thats entirely about a subject youve been thinking about for years and wondered if anyone else thinks about it. My first Saramago novel. Im sensing a deep dive into his catalog.2nd reading: Discovering this book has been like getting together with an old friend. Theres a comfort and a familiarity and a built in interest that I wasnt expecting. Ive read it twice in a month and I may dive back in again soon. I love

Memory of a book read a few minutes ago. Remnants of images, impressions. Remembering a book called All the Names, by the Portuguese writer José Saramago.Resting then in memory, the smell of old paper breathes Mr José, employee of the National Conservatory of civil status, archive where all the names of the living and the dead are kept. A word, an adjective is needed to read these pages: "Kafkaesque". It seems inevitable that word, as soon as it comes to describe the administration in all its

Registered RedemptionMost of Saramago's themes are found here: death, the community of the living and the dead, the beautiful uncertainty and fluidity of language, the ultimately indecipherable complexity of human communication, identity, the search for meaning. He would probably have reacted harshly to the suggestion that he had created (perhaps 'outlined' is a better verb, but then again perhaps there is no adequate word at all) a sort of religion without a deity, the core of which is a humble

Generally when I write a review, I do it straight off and don't edit much. I start off with the idea of what I want to say about the book and it flows from there. But not this time. I also don't want to review the book(s) but just give my reactions to them. These are books that will be easily spoiled if you know too much about them before you read them.Firstly it was by accident I read Death with Interruptions first and then this one. That was fortuitious, as the other way round would have