Blindness

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Third: Unfortunately, the only constant that the narrative voice does have is a meaninglessly verbose style. Heard the one about the pandemic and about the bumbling, incompetent governments misguided reaction? It is like a social commentary using highly allegorical streamlined unique prose, as James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant", which may get sometimes a bit challenging to read due to its text having no quotation marks, no indentations when a speaker changes; however, if one could brave through initial pages then the book could not be put down. Aș mențona faptul că José Saramago a scris romanul despre „orbire” la 72-73 de ani, exemplu uimitor de fecunditate tardivă.

After the valuables have been exhausted as a bartering tool for food and water the thugs tell the groups that if they want to eat they need to send their women to them. The book is more like a philosophical treatise, without being pedantic, on human existence which shows us our own fragility and fallibility through dismantling our society, crumbling our civilization to nothing. 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. Life as we know it, could be changed with the rules of nature, our society, our morals, ethics may not stand the savage duress of existence. It is one of Saramago's most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda.Shortly before his death, Saramago gave German composer Anno Schreier the rights to compose an opera based on the novel. Here we are with a bunch of people who no longer can rely on their sight so, in not giving them names, Saramago also puts us in the dark, forcing us to rely instead on personal characteristics and descriptions given to conjure these characters ourselves.

Deprived of the sense of seeing, the characters have to cope with brutal bestiality and suffering to survive in a world limited by the loss of vision - an accurate symbol for overview, control, and objective judgement of reality. Blindness" is the most captivating novel I have read in a long time, but also the one I closed with the most generous relief. Narrative viewpoints switch back and forth in what feels like quite an arbitrary manner with consequences at different times confusing and terrifying. Brilliant Portuguese fabulist Saramago (The History of the Siege of Lisbon) has never shied away from big game.The book is highly enjoyable with traits of acerbic, ironical and wry humor through the existential horrors of life, dense but comprehensible, its impact is immediate and a reflection of the sensibility of Saramago, which is at once alive and significant.

The unanticipated and unforeseen events often strike us when we least expect them to, so much so that those could afflict you in the middle of a ride, which is still explicable. Moyano, an acclaimed Argentinian novelist imprisoned and, in 1976, exiled because of his political convictions, weaves an allegorical narrative of exceptional clarity and insight. The more disturbing scenes are an intrinsic part of a tale that remind the reader of the fragility of civilisation. The reader accompanies a group of ten people, the first victims of the scourge that will quarantine, who, in their misfortune, have the unexpected luck of having a woman who can still see among them. While Lord of the Flies might seem an immediately similar reference, Saramaga's work has both more craft and more acuity than William Golding's tale.Can you imagine the fear that any flu symptoms must have inspired in people for years after the event? With gorgeous prose, this thought-provoking book shows us how our world, ever so concerned and consumed by appearances, would deal with the loss of our most relied upon sense: vision. G. Wells 'In the Country of the Blind' the only person who can see suffers great discrimination and has to agree to have his eyes removed and become as blind as the rest of the people who over the generations have adapted to life without vision. Fortunately, the altruistic behavior and intelligence of the doctor's wife somewhat attenuate the surrounding darkness!