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Blindnessexercises its powers cruelly and arbitrarily.The novel’s Government and soldiers essentially abandon the blind patients and start treating them as a problem to be solved rather than humans whom it is responsible for defending. This reflects the idea that authoritarianism and fascism recast
Full Title: Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Essay on Blindness) When Written: 1992–1995 Where Written: Lisbon, Portugal and Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain When Published: 1995 (English translation: 1997) Literary Period: Contemporary Portuguese Literature Genre: Philosophical Novel Setting: An unnamed city, primarily in an abandoned mental hospital
9 paź 2022 · A speculative parable reminiscent of Albert Camus’s The Plague, Blindness examines the reasons for a mysterious social and moral breakdown in a typical modern city. Saramago’s narrative uses the literal blindness of almost all the inhabitants of his city as a political, psychological, and spiritual metaphor.
20 maj 2020 · Book review of José Saramago's novel, Blindness (1995, English translation in 1997), which explores what happens when a sudden epidemic of white blindness hits.
The ThemeTracker below shows where, and to what degree, the theme of Narrative, Ideology, and Identity appears in each chapter of Blindness. Click or tap on any chapter to read its Summary & Analysis. Get the entire Blindness LitChart as a printable PDF.
—The symbolic value of blindness that goes beyond physical evidence and transports the reader to universal dimension of the great existential options and the most basic needs of Man is a thematic and ideological structuring vector in the novel Blindness by José Saramago.
Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. It is one of Saramago's most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda.
