5/12/2023 0 Comments Blindness jose saramago book![]() 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.Īs 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.īlindness is a great novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago that deals with human’s individual and collective reactions when in the face of adversarial forces. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. ![]() Theme: Existence, Uncertainty, and Autonomy Good, Evil, and Moral Conscience Biological Needs and Human SocietyĪ city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” that spares no one. Setting Place: An unnamed city, primarily in an abandoned mental hospital ![]() Major Characters: The doctor (Blindness), The doctor’s wife, The girl with the dark glasses, The first blind man, The first blind man’s wife, The boy with the squint, The old man with the black eye patch, The car thief First Publication: 1995 (English translation: 1997) ![]()
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