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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.
9 paź 2022 · A novel by the Nobel laureate José Saramago, Blindness explores the themes of blindness and vision as metaphors for moral and spiritual conditions. The novel depicts a city where almost everyone becomes blind due to a mysterious epidemic, and a few sighted people try to survive and restore order.
From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of lossA city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women.
One of the doctor’s patients, a young woman wearing dark glasses for an eye infection, works as a prostitute and goes blind while having sex with a man at a hotel. Two different police officers escort the car-thief and the girl with the dark glasses back to their respective homes.
Saramago predominantly uses blindness as a metaphor for central problems in human psychology and society, and many critics from disability studies have suggested that this metaphor perpetuates harmful ideas about blind people, even if this was never Saramago’s intention.
A city is hit by a mysterious blindness epidemic that spares no one. A man guides a group of strangers through the chaos and horror of the quarantined streets, where the blind are preyed upon by criminals and authorities.
In José Saramago’s philosophical novel Blindness, an unnamed city’s residents start suddenly and inexplicably losing their sight. Rather than pure darkness, they see “impenetrable whiteness,” and their blindness appears to be contagious: in a matter of weeks, the entire city loses its sight—except, it seems, for the doctor’s wife ...
