“All the names”, by José Saramago: a text within folds

Abstract

This study aims at developing an analysis about the presence of baroque traits in the novel Todos os Nomes by José Saramago. For this purpose it will be used, above all, reflexions of Gilles Deleuze in his work A Dobra: Leibniz e o Barroco, in which, beyond the question of the endless double and its respective unfoldings, it will be studied the question of the individual moving and the voluntary free act that conduct to the final act, as well as the analysis of the unfinished man and unmutable concepts determined by rigid systems, marks of Baroque’s century and visible in our contemporary society. On the other way, the study aims at evidencing the novel’s narrative technique in order to report them to the daily adventure’s theme and to the modern anti-hero, as also as to the carnival literature, and, for that, I will make a lecture of Problemas da Poética de Dostoievski from Mikhail Bakhtin.