So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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Jose Saramago presents a character with a dull, boring job who in the face of doing and being all that he is supposed to do, chooses to do something daring for the first time in his life, to find a young lady whose card he chooses out of the thousands he sees every day. The reading is difficult at first because of the lack of quotations and the page long paragraphes, but as the book progresses one is enchanted by the change of mood and the growing complexity of Senhor Jose, his one character ironically who has a name.
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All the Names by Jose Saramago
tudidane, March 11, 2007
Jose Saramago presents a character with a dull, boring job who in the face of doing and being all that he is supposed to do, chooses to do something daring for the first time in his life, to find a young lady whose card he chooses out of the thousands he sees every day. The reading is difficult at first because of the lack of quotations and the page long paragraphes, but as the book progresses one is enchanted by the change of mood and the growing complexity of Senhor Jose, his one character ironically who has a name.(5 of 10 readers found this comment helpful)