by José Saramago · Punto de Lectura S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466321495
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«Ensayo sobre la ceguera» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura S.L. in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
A white blindness spreads suddenly until it becomes an epidemic. Confined in quarantine or wandering through a disoriented city, those who lose their sight must face the survival instinct and the most primitive side of human beings. The work is a parable about the fragility of social order and the need for mutual aid.
«Ensayo sobre la ceguera» is the first instalment of the «Ceguera» series. It was originally published in Portuguese in 1995. José Saramago won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
For readers of literary fiction, dystopias and book clubs.
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."
