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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 de oct. de 2022 · Saramago’s narrative uses the literal blindness of almost all the inhabitants of his city as a political, psychological, and spiritual metaphor. Blindness is written in a distinctive style that Saramago developed when he returned to literature after a 20-year hiatus.
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds...
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.
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.
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.
Blindness Series by José Saramago. 2 primary works • 2 total works. Book 1. Blindness. by José Saramago. 4.17 · 295,151 Ratings · 24,590 Reviews · published 1995 · 434 editions. From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a m… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. Seeing. by José Saramago.
