by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420442693
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«Ensayo sobre la ceguera» is the dystopian novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in hardback (424 pages, in Spanish).
An epidemic of «white blindness» strikes a city; the authorities isolate those affected, but chaos overwhelms coexistence. The plot follows a woman who pretends to be blind so as not to be separated from her husband. Saramago explores the fragility of civilization, morality and solidarity when survival dominates everything.
It belongs to the Biblioteca José Saramago collection, is a translation by Basilio Losada, and the cover highlights that José Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
For readers of contemporary fiction and dystopias seeking a story about ethics, selfishness and the fragility of social order.
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."
