Todos los nombres / All the Names (Paperback)

from browner56

Senhor José, a low-level functionary in the Civil Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths, lives the epitome of a mundane existence. His days are spent recording basic facts of other people's lives in a soulless environment where such information has been chronicled for centuries. He spends his ...

from mattviews

Senhor José's life is nothing but ordinary: in an unnamed city he works as a lowly clerk for the Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Death where the living and dead permanently share the same shelf in a single archive. In his early fifties, José has a laudable modesty of those who do not ...

from HadriantheBlind

I am falling in love with Saramago's prose more and more. His titanic blocks of page-long paragraphs seem very intimidating, but each individual sentence is beautifully interlacing and flowing.I won't reveal too many of the details, but Saramago discusses not only the broad themes of isolation an...

from ursula

In an unnamed country, in an unnamed city, Senhor José works at the Central Registry. The Registry is the repository for records of the important events in the lives of the city's citizenry. A card is created upon someone's birth, then marriage and maybe divorce are added, and finally death. Senh...

from kirstiecat

I was a fan of José Saramago before his passing but his death has actually reminded me to read some of his novels that I hadn't previously read and the man has certainly left a legacy. At it's surface, All the Names is the story of the way bureaucracy deals with the dead and the living (at least ...