Mention Books In Pursuance Of Blindness (Blindness #1)
| Original Title: | Ensaio sobre a cegueira ASIN B003T0GBOM |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Blindness #1 |
| 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 |
| Literary Awards: | Premio San Clemente for Novela Estranxeira (1999), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (1999) |
José Saramago
Kindle Edition | Pages: 349 pages Rating: 4.12 | 180091 Users | 14637 Reviews
List Containing Books Blindness (Blindness #1)
| Title | : | Blindness (Blindness #1) |
| Author | : | José Saramago |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 349 pages |
| Published | : | August 23rd 2013 by Mariner Books (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fantasy. Paranormal. Romance. Paranormal Romance. Supernatural. Fiction |
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From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A 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. 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. As 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.Rating Containing Books Blindness (Blindness #1)
Ratings: 4.12 From 180091 Users | 14637 ReviewsArticle Containing Books Blindness (Blindness #1)
Just imagine that you are going about your daily life as you always do. It's a normal day; nothing out of the ordinary. But then, suddenly, without any forewarning, you go completely blind. One second seeing the world as you know it, the next experiencing a complete and unending whiteness. Then imagine you go to the trusty health professionals so they can get to the bottom of it... the doctor doesn't know what's wrong with you, but you're confident he/she will figure it out and prescribeNot at all disturbing, not at all compelling and not at all interesting, Jose Saramago's Blindness only succeeds in frustrating readers who take a moment to let their imagination beyond the page. Yes, Saramago's story is a clever idea, and, yes, he creates an intentional allegory to force us to think about the nature of humanity, but his ideas are clearly those of a privileged white male in a privileged European nation. Not only do his portrayals of women and their men fall short of the mark,
Ive read more than my share of post-apocalyptic novels where humanity is suddenly wiped out by a sudden plague or enslaved by aliens, attacked by zombies, buried under snow or under volcanic ash. I have even read one about people going blind overnight in The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Yet, none of them managed to touch me so deeply and to disturb me out of my comfortably numb daily routine as Jose Saramagos account. There are no teenage chosen ones to pull us back from the brink of
This book was brutal in the most literal sense of the term. It looks at how humans can devolve into savages when put in certain situations, in this case when a 'white blindness' epidemic breaks out and causes people to suddenly lose their sight for no explicable reason.Saramago is a pretty harsh critic, it seems, of organized structures like government or religionand that's most clearly seen in the ways that the affected people create communities, how they respond to crises, and ultimately how
What kind of a person is it who relishes reviewing the books he hates and quails at the thought of reviewing his five-star books? It would appear that that could be a description of me. Well, the reason's obvious - it's great fun to boot a bad book and some bad ideas all around this site, a chance for a few jokes, a laugh, a song and a hand grenade, a couple of pints of Scruttock's Old Dirigible and everyone goes home with a smile on their face, no harm done. Not so easy to describe greatness,
When you sit in a coffee shop at the corner of two busy streets and read a book about blindness, you find yourself thinking unfamiliar thoughts, and you believe, when you raise your head to watch the people passing, that you see things differently. You notice the soft yellow light of the shop reflecting off the bronze of the hardwood floors. You notice among the people coming from the train two girls who intersect that line, spilt, call back, and go their ways, dividing into the two directions
I was lent this book back in the late 90's, when I wasn't really an avid reader, barely scraping through five to ten books a year, and I soon quit, because of the annoyance of page after page of run-on sentences, un-paragraphed dialogue and zero quotation marks, What the hell! I thought, I'd never come across this before. I can't be doing with this. Here, have your book back.Two decades later, and after thoroughly enjoying both 'The Double' and 'All the Names' in the last year or so, I got my
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