Hello,
I recently finished reading José Saramago's All Names and I'm still processing it. The novel follows Senhor José, a lonely clerk in the Central Registry, who becomes obsessed with tracing the life of a random woman.
On the surface, it feels like a quiet story about bureaucracy, isolation, and obsession, but I can't shake the feeling that it's also a metaphor for something larger, maybe memory, identity, or how we're all reduced to names in records.
How do you interpret the symbolism and themes in this book? Did it resonate with you?
I recently finished reading José Saramago's All Names and I'm still processing it. The novel follows Senhor José, a lonely clerk in the Central Registry, who becomes obsessed with tracing the life of a random woman.
On the surface, it feels like a quiet story about bureaucracy, isolation, and obsession, but I can't shake the feeling that it's also a metaphor for something larger, maybe memory, identity, or how we're all reduced to names in records.
How do you interpret the symbolism and themes in this book? Did it resonate with you?