by José Saramago · Mariner Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780156007757
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«Blindness» is the dystopian novel by José Saramago, Nobel Prize in Literature 1998, published by Mariner Books in paperback (352 pages, in English).
An epidemic of white blindness strikes a city and the authorities confine the affected to an abandoned psychiatric hospital. There, scarcity and fear unleash violence. In that chaos, a woman who retains her sight guides a group of strangers, in a tale about the fragility of civilization and the human capacity to resist.
«Blindness» is the first installment of the Blindness series. The novel was originally published in 1995 as «Ensaio sobre a Cegueira»; this English edition is a translation by Giovanni Pontiero.
Aimed at book clubs and readers of dystopias with literary and social depth.
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
