Blindness

Author(s): José Saramago

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A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilised society are snapped.No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. This is not anarchy, this is blindness.


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A chillingly powerful dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers.

"Extraordinary...a tour de force of thought-experiment and feeling-experiment" Observer "This is a shattering work by a literary master...a book of real stature" Boston Globe "Saramago repeatedly undertakes to unite the pressing demands of the present with an unfolding vision of the future. This is his most apocalyptic, and most optimistic, version of that project yet." Independent "He writes a prose of particularly luminous intensity, brilliantly rendered into English by his regular translator Giovanni Pontiero...Sweepingly ambitious" The Times "A powerful fable" Scotsman

Jose Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922 in the small rural village of Azinhaga, he was in his fifties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, which included plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and over a dozen novels, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in June 2010.

General Fields

  • : 9780099573586
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  • : 0.23
  • : June 2013
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : May 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : José Saramago
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 869.3/42
  • : 320
  • : FA