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This book left me speechless (which is a rare occurrence). Please enjoy the pictures to illustrate the plot while I recover my gift of rambling.

It is easier for me to lambaste a book when it is a translation; after all, maybe it is not the author who should be held accountable for the text’s flaws. Whether or not the translator is culpable, Blindness indeed has many flaws. After publication of the late Nobel Prize winner’s final novel, Cain, along comes the first English-language translation of this early work. The first-person narrative centers on H., a disgruntled Continue reading » The police sergeants are the officers who command the soldiers that guard the hospital and who generally communicate with the blind internees when they request resources or assistance (but typically deny their requests). Like the…

Saramago wrote a sequel to Blindness in 2004, titled Seeing ( Ensaio sobre a lucidez, literal English translation Essay on lucidity), which has also been translated into English. The sequel novel takes place in the same country featured in Blindness and features several of the same nameless characters. Howell, Peter (2008-05-16). "Blindness not getting glad eye". Toronto Star. Torstar . Retrieved 2008-05-20. 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. The girl with the dark glasses is one of the novel’s protagonists; she’s a young woman who visits the doctor for an eye infection (hence her dark glasses) and goes blind soon after. The girl…

Do we have any hope then? Perhaps we do, otherwise we may not be reading this great piece of literature after progressing through so many hideous acts- genocides, wars, rapes, murders etc.- in our own history of civilization. Hope is a necessary evil, which instills confidence in you to move forward, though it may be shallow and baseless at times and that is all sometimes we need to put forth through madness of humanity. Saramago doesn’t disappoint you here either. The major characters of Saramago braved themselves to last extend of their perseverance, which comes out to be most essential of human qualities needed for survival, to remain afloat in this sea of white nothingness. Author decries Blindness protests as misguided". CBC News. October 4, 2008 . Retrieved May 26, 2013. An early band of affected citizens is sent to a mental ward, in the hopes of containing this sudden epidemic of blindness. Only one among them can see, a woman as unnamed as anyone else in the story, but we come to know her as “the doctor's wife.” Saramago had married Ilda Reis, a typist turned engraver, in 1944 (they divorced in 1970). His debut novel, The Land of Sin, was published the same year, 1947, that his only child, Violante, was born. After a long gap, he began to publish poetry and plays in the 60s. But, jobless in 1976, he spent time in rural Alentejo, and returned to fiction. The Manual of Painting and Calligraphy is, says Carlos Reis, "very autobiographical. Saramago thinks the revolution failed. Yet it was thanks to that failure, when he was fired, that he had to write to survive. It was his only option." a b "Metacritic: 2008 Film Critic Top Ten Lists". Metacritic. Archived from the original on January 2, 2009 . Retrieved January 11, 2009.The doctor and his wife invite their new "family" to their apartment, where they establish a mutually supportive long-term home. Then, just as suddenly as his sight had been lost, the driver – the first man to lose their sight – recovers his sight, indicating that the body had fought off the disease, and that the blindness is ultimately temporary. They celebrate and their hope is restored.

The Day of the Triffids, the 1951 John Wyndham novel (and its many adaptations) about societal collapse following widespread blindness. His move to Lanzarote marked a shift in his fiction. His later books, set in unspecified countries, are less tangibly rooted in Portuguese life and history, or the streets and storms of Lisbon. The speculative element has come to the fore. Another writer of speculative fiction, Ursula K Le Guin, admires in them the "sound, sweet humour" and simplicity of a "great artist in full control of his art". Yet for the novelist Helder Macedo, emeritus professor of Portuguese at King's College London, Saramago has always been a "writer of allegories with a universal outlook. His starting-point is not 'once upon a time', but 'what if?'." For Saramago, "my work is about the possibility of the impossible. I ask the reader to accept a pact; even if the idea is absurd, the important thing is to imagine its development. The idea is the point of departure, but the development is always rational and logical." Fleming, Michael (2007-06-04). " 'Blindness' in Ruffalo's sight". Variety. Reed Business Information . Retrieved 2007-06-18.A sequel titled Seeing was published in 2004. Blindness was adapted into a film of the same name in 2008. National Federation of the Blind Condemns and Deplores the Movie Blindness". National Federation of the Blind. 2008-09-30. Archived from the original on 2008-10-03 . Retrieved 2008-10-01.

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