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Blindness

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Blindness

by Jose Saramago

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | October 15, 1999 | Trade Paperback

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man''s worst appetites and weaknesses-and man''s ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man''s will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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    Reading With Your Eyes Closed

    Napoleon Bonaparte

    4 weeks ago

    While most people will find disturbing the lack of punctuation and quotations marks, this is used by Saramago to blind us a bit. As we read, we lose all our visual references; there is no point where you can return easily. Saramango did an incredible job making the reader as powerless as the blind were in this book. It’s a deep story about a society that loses their humanity returning to primal instinct. Other than the ending that left me a bit unsatisfied, the book was a hit for me; I would definitely recommend it to anybody willing to get passed the lack of spaces.

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    Rating: 4/5

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    Margaret Majewski

    9 months ago

    This was a very interesting book. I felt like it was somewhat the adult version of Lord of the Flies. For me, the style of writing was a bit confusing at times but it wasn't difficult.

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    Blindness

    Tanner Lane

    15 months ago

    Blindness is a novel about a community that slowly starts to go blind, except for one person. After the city discovers that the blindness is contagious they start to quarantine all the blind people inside an abandoned mental hospital. Eventually human nature sets in. The fight for power, food, and water slowly creates chaos within the hospital. A small group of people manage to escape and soon realize that the whole city has gone blind. Blindness then becomes a story about kindness, friendship, and determination in order to survive against all odds. Jose Saramago provides a unique read for everyone to enjoy.

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    Mike

    Rating: 4/5

    Surpsingly clear-sighted

    Mike

    13 years ago

    José Saramago's "Blindness" throws the reader in a fictional situation where an entire nation's population goes blind. This fictional construct brings the characters of this story to redefine social order to accomodate their blindness. This work offers a surprisingly clear-sighted view, if a bit disturbing at times, of human nature.

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An epidemic of "white blindness" hits up the metropolis, sparing few whilst indiscriminately attacking the populous. Panic-maddened, citizens take to shelter only to be knocked around by seedier types that are themselves preoccupied with staying safe. From the ruins sways a procession of seven strangers, each totally unique in their background. Together they wade through the aftermath of the city to witness firsthand the harrowing surroundings. Blindness won the Nobel Prize for Literature for its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses, and the exhilarating spirit that rises beyond them.

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A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man''s worst appetites and weaknesses-and man''s ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man''s will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.

About the Author

JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922-2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Trade Paperback

352 Pages, 5.2 x 7.9 x 1 in

October 15, 1999

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

English


0156007754
9780156007757

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