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2022: SARAMAGO YEAR The most intense love story in Portuguese literature.All the Names is the adventure story of a nameless José, even though his is the only name to appear in the story. In his apparent humility, in his authentic solitude, in his lack of material and emotional...
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2022: SARAMAGO YEAR The most intense love story in Portuguese literature. All the Names is the adventure story of a nameless José, even though his is the only name to appear 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 obstinate Bartleby; Pessoa's metaphysical Bernardo Soares... Don José begins by innocently cultivating the hobby of collecting news about famous people. But, in order to give them reliability, he decides to complete them with the documents from the Civil Registry where he works. This forces him to commit infractions of the regulations and to star in adventures that he had never believed himself capable of. Critics have said: «Saramago makes an elusive reality comprehensible, with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony.» «A man with a sensibility and a capacity to see and understand that are far above what we ordinary mortals generally see and understand.» «Saramago is an example, a most dignified style of life and literature, which demonstrates the possibility of sailing against the current [...]. His word has the value of an antifreeze, of a personal remedy against the gales of cynicism that envelop us.» «I don't know, nor do I want to know, where Saramago got that diabolical narrative tone, hard and pious at the same time, [...] which allows him to tell so close to the heart and at the same time so close to history.» «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.» «Like Günter Grass or Cees Nooteboom, Saramago aspires to connect with an audience that transcends national boundaries.» |
Editorial: ALFAGUARA Fecha de publicación: Páginas: 328 Empastado: Tapa Blanda Idioma: Español |
