All the Names
by:
José Saramago (author)
Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one - of an apparently ordinary woman - will transform his life. By day Senhor Jose labours in the labyrinthine stacks of the city's central registry. By night he ferrets for facts about the famous, compiling his own archive of births, deaths and...
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Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one - of an apparently ordinary woman - will transform his life. By day Senhor Jose labours in the labyrinthine stacks of the city's central registry. By night he ferrets for facts about the famous, compiling his own archive of births, deaths and marriages. One day he chances upon an index card of an ordinary woman whose details hold as much fascination for him as any celebrity's. Striking forth from the regimentation of his daily life, Jose starts to track the woman down, obsessively following a thread of clues in a bid to rescue her from an oblivion deeper than the grave.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781860467202 (1860467202)
Publish date: June 1st 2000
Publisher: Harvill Panther
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
To jest moje pierwsze spotkanie z Saramago. Z tą książką było różnie, nie chce mówić, że się rozczarowałam, bo to była w sumie bardzo dobra książka. Tylko chyba nie dla mnie. Mam wrażenie, że trochę mnie zmęczyła. Główny bohater, skromny urzędnik Jose, pracownik Archiwum Głównego Akt Stanu Cywilnego...
Zmarli żyją w naszej pamięci. Kiedy zapominamy umierają powtórnie. A może pamiętając nie pozwalamy im odejść. Przypadek sprawił, że bezbarwne i monotonne życie pięćdziesięcioletniego kancelisty, pana Jose, zmieniło się w trochę rozpaczliwą a trochę zabawną, próbę wyrwania się ze szponów samotności. ...
I tried. I really did. I adore Henry James. I'm not against verbosity. But I need more dialog, and more action. It took me 3 sessions to get 45 pages in and I gave up. Sorry. I'm sure it's profound or something, but I'm giving it a miss.
I listened to this so I would not have to deal with the lack of punctuation, and yet the never-ending sentences were still unavoidable. On and on and on with lists of details that I found boring. This is a philosophical treatise, or should I say pure sophistry?! Yes, I get what the author is saying ...
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