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Blindness (book)

23 Ratings: 4.2
A book by Jose Saramago

In an unnamed city in an unnamed country, a man sitting in his car waiting for a traffic light to change is suddenly struck blind. But instead of being plunged into darkness, this man sees everything white, as if he "were caught in a mist or had … see full wiki

Author: Jose Saramago
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Harvest Books
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Quick Tip by . June 14, 2010
Exciting. Scary.
review by . July 23, 2009
Firstly, I want to start by saying that this was one of the scariest books that I have ever read.     A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities begin by quarantining the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers. I really liked the way that nobody in the story had a name (i.e.: the …
review by . January 09, 2008
My track record with foreign Nobel laureates leaves something to be desired. Somewhere in a box in my apartment there is a book by Patrick White. I've read the first 30 pages three times. Every trip to the bookstore involves wilful ignoring of undoubtedly worthy offerings by Naguib Mahfouz and Wole Soyinka, with Orhan Pamuk joining the list of guilt triggers last year. If it weren't for my totally catholic reading tastes in college (Canetti, Sartre, Lessing, Gordimer, Grass, Hesse, Milosz), my record …
review by . August 20, 2007
Jose Saramago is another of the Nobel Prize for Literature winners of whom I was blissfully unaware until I heard about Blindness, the novel that won him that prize. But now I can easily understand why this Portuguese writer was chosen for the award.    Much of Blindness, set in an unnamed major city of an unnamed country, has somewhat of a fairy tale feel to it. That feel comes from the way that government officials and the military react when faced with a sudden epidemic of …
review by . August 09, 2005
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More
While for a while I felt myself put off by Saramago's continual digressions, or side remarks, after a while they became charming and occasionally brilliant and I found myself caught up in the story as if I were trusting a quirky but fascinating storyteller. It really does feel like that -- what it takes to read this is to trust that the narrator (who rambles on a bit or makes comments on the side, to relate awkwardly translated but still apt sayings to the events or to anticipate rightly or wrongly …
review by . September 27, 2003
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More
"Blindness was spreading, not like a sudden tide flooding everything and carrying all before it, but like an insidious infiltration of a thousand and one turbulent rivulets which, having slowly drenched the earth, suddenly submerge it completely." - from "Blindness" by José SaramagoLook around you for a moment, take in your surroundings. Now imagine that you cannot see these words you're reading, or the page in front of you, or the people near you. Imagine, instead, that your vision has been blasted …
review by . November 10, 1998
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More
"Blindness" by Jose Saramago does what few novels accomplish - delivers a monumnetally soul searching journey for 20th century man in an eloquent literary style. It is rare for a first chapter to provide an overture so succinct, suggesting the seeds of everything that is to follow, introduce a subtle and difficult writing style to tell a bizarre story, and still capture the reader's attention so securely that makes us feel as though we are on a locomotive ride to an inexorable end. Without names …
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