All Names By José Saramago
(Marlua)
You know the name they gave you, but you do not know the name you have got. It is the pretext for the story of this book. The main character of this literary work is a middle-aged man, a lowly clerk of a fictitious Central Registry who is known by Senhor Jose. Tormented by a mediocre and monotonous life, this clerk begins to develop throughout the years a little and curious hobby. This one consists of collecting news items of famous people from newspapers and magazines. Once he realises that in his collections there is a lack of information about the birth?s people he collects (date, origin, parental data, etc.). From then, he decides to copy the cards data which are in the Registry where he works. By accident, the card of a common person (a woman) is mixed up with others he copies laboriously. The unexpected contrast between the facts known and what is unknown breaks out the need of learning more about that woman?s life. Thus, the search begins; a search of the other person which is composed of meetings and absences, in which Sr. José applies to means that he had never thought he could apply.
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