My name
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quando ouvi proferir o meu nome
when I heard my name spoken
He hears his own name pronounced inside the room.
The trigger is his own name, and the verb is telling: not merely 'said' but 'proferido' — pronounced, spoken out into the room with a certain weight, as one delivers a line. Bento's whole account of himself begins the instant he hears himself become a subject of others' talk. He does not yet know what is being said, only that he is the topic; and that is enough to make him hide. The self as overheard, the self assembled from what others say when they think you aren't listening — the novel's method is here in a single clause.
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