Blindness (Harvest Book)
by Jose Saramago
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Author: Jose SaramagoTranslator: Giovanni Pontiero
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-10-04
ISBN: 0156007754
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Harvest Books
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- ISBN13: 9780156007757
- Condition: New
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Book Review: "An impenetrable whiteness covered everything."
Summary: 5 Stars
A friend encouraged me to read BLINDNESS, calling it "the best novel ever written." Nobel-Prize winner, Jose Saramago's book is about blindness, both literal and symbolic. Within a day after a character is struck blind while waiting at a traffic signal, other characters who then assist him--his wife, a Good Samaritan (who steals his car), a taxi driver, and an eye doctor--also go blind. Eventually no one is spared from the epidemic of "white blindness," and with one exception, the entire population goes blind. When the health authorites quarantine the blind victims in a guarded mental asylum, Saramago's novel not only becomes an insightful examination of human behavior, but a horrifying study of "a government of the blind trying to rule the blind, that is to say, nothingness trying to organise nothingness" (p. 255). When there is no more water, electricity, or food, only chaos, civilization returns to "the primitive sources of slime" and a "world where all hope is gone" (pp. 209; 277). BLINDNESS may not be "the best novel ever written." But whether you read it as a thought-provoking thriller or as an insightful allegory about ignorance, Saramago's tale will blindside you with its unforgettable vision.G. Merritt
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