“Saramago’s surreal allegory explores the ability of the human spirit to prevail in even the most absurdly unjust of conditions, yet he reinvents this familiar struggle with the stylistic eccentricity of a master.” We should be grateful when it is handed to us in such generous measure.” a clear-eyed and compassionate acknowledgment of things as they are, a quality that can only honestly be termed wisdom. “This is an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horrors of the century.”
“This is a shattering work by a literary master.” As Blindness reclaims the age-old story of a plague, it evokes the vivid and trembling horrors of the twentieth century, leaving readers with a powerful vision of the human spirit that’s bound both by weakness and exhilarating strength. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and their procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. Genre: Book2Screen, Dystopia, Horror, Literary Fictionįrom Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of lossĪ city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” that spares no one.
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