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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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The cadence and rhythm of Saramago's prose supplants traditional punctuation, and easily sweeps the reader into his Kafkaesque fado of institutionalized loneliness and isolation. This complex, at times darkly humorous novel, follows forlorn everyman Senhor Jose as he journeys through a series of labyrinths--crumbling bureaucracies, necropolises, psychic desolation-- searching for human contact, compassion, and love. By the novel's end Senhor Jose, tethered by a tenuous, metaphorical algorithm

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

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simply gorgeous. a story of timidity and how a tiny seed of imagination and curiosity can transform a person and his life.i adore this one because there's no "love interest" and because of saramago's unbelievable ability to effortlessly pop breathtaking statements about humanity at the ends of long paragraphs. they seem like afterthoughts because of the way they're placed and articulated, but if everyone had a single thought like these in his or her lifetime, the world would be just fine.

All names in a sort of metaphorical sense is about to know how to live and know how to die. Also, is about to know how to take life and death: seriously or non-seriously? And, by the way, what does it mean seriousness? Difficult questions. But according to mystic masters, everything is crystal clear and simple to rule: seriousness is a sick way of looking at existence. A human being of perfection (which should be there by birth itself) will love to live and will love to die. His/her life will be

I never thought a novel about a lonely and duller than dull file clerk could turn out to be so readable, but that's exactly how I found this, it was difficult to find a reasonable place to stop, of which I simply had to, as it's a bit too long to gulp down in one go, although for those who don't get fidgety cramps, don't have much of an appetite, and with plenty of time on their hands, it may work out beneficial. In fact, this is the very book the protagonist of All the Names would likely read

In general I do not really like novels of ideas in which the characters are flat, only carriers of the ideas the author wants to expose. This book is no exception. The omniscient narrator is meant to be funny but is really annoying. His formal language winds itself in unnecessarily long sentences that ask a lot of concentration. The ideas the author wants to bring across, if present at all, do not seem very interesting. A waste of time!