{"product_id":"libro-todos-los-nombres-2","title":"All names","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022: SARAMAGO YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most intense love story in Portuguese literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll the Names\u003c\/i\u003e is the adventure story of a nameless José, although his is the only name in the story. In his apparent humility, in his authentic solitude, in his lack of material and emotional possessions and, above all, in his inalienable human dignity, this Don José is a close relative of other literary characters: Bouvard and Pécuchet, Flaubert's encyclopedic copyists; Melville's stubborn Bartleby; Pessoa's metaphysical Bernardo Soares...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDon José begins by innocently collecting news about famous people. But, to give them reliability, he decides to complete them with documents from the Civil Registry where he works. This forces him to commit infractions of the regulations and to star in adventures he had never believed himself capable of.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritics have said:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«\u003ci\u003eAll the Names\u003c\/i\u003e is the most intense love story in Portuguese literature of all time.»\u003cbr\u003eEduardo Lourenço\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Saramago makes an elusive reality understandable, with parables sustained by imagination, compassion, and irony.»\u003cbr\u003eNobel Committee\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«A man with a sensibility and a capacity to see and understand that are far above what we common mortals generally see and understand.»\u003cbr\u003eHéctor Abad Faciolince\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Saramago is an example, a most dignified style of life and literature, which demonstrates the possibility of swimming against the current [...]. His word has the value of an antifreeze, of a personal remedy against the gales of cynicism that envelop us.»\u003cbr\u003eLuis García Montero\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«I don't know, nor do I want to know, where Saramago got that diabolical narrative tone, hard and pious at the same time, [...] that allows him to tell so close to the heart and at the same time so close to history.»\u003cbr\u003eLuis Landero\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Saramago writes novels about myths to demystify them, [...] always to address the reality that surrounds him, to deal with current problems that are everyone's, and for everything to be clear from the beginning.»\u003cbr\u003eRafael Conte, \u003ci\u003eBabelia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Like Günter Grass or Cees Nooteboom, Saramago aspires to connect with a public that transcends national boundaries.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEl País\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"José Saramago","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43061067153656,"sku":"9788490628737","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/todos-los-nombres-saramago-jose-787852.jpg?v=1696456402","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/libro-todos-los-nombres-2","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}