All names: multiplicity and movement

Abstract

From the metaphorical use of terms such as travel and nomadism, this paper proposes to discuss how the main character route in Todos os nomes, a work by José Saramago, is a journey into the unknown wanderer. When trying to rescue his subjectivity and know his interiority, the Saramaguian character is free from the bonds made by the social body and succeed to give space to the emergence of situations and human relationships that lost themselves at the whirl of contradictions raised by the modern and rooted man