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All Names is the adventure story of a "nameless" Joseph, although his is the only one that appears in the story. In his apparent humility, in his authentic solitude, in his lack of material and affective goods and, above all, in his inalienable human dignity, this Don José is a close relative of other literary characters: Bouvard and Pécuchet, Flaubert's encyclopedic copyists; the obstinate Bartleby of Melville; the metaphysician Bernardo Soares de Pessoa... Don José begins by cultivating the innocent hobby of collecting news about famous people. But, to give them reliability, he decides to complete them with documents from the Civil Registry where he works. This forces him to commit infractions to the regulations and to star in adventures that he had never believed himself capable of.