by José Saramago · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422688242
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«Ensayo sobre la ceguera» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (366 pages, in Spanish).
A man suddenly goes blind in the middle of the street: it is the first case of an epidemic of white blindness that spreads uncontrollably. Confined in quarantine and then lost in the city, those affected must face the disintegration of society and survival at any cost.
Translation by Basilio Losada of the Portuguese original Ensaio sobre a Cegueira. First installment of the Blindness series.
Recommended for readers of dystopian fiction and contemporary narrative seeking stories about human nature.
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."
