by José Saramago · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495501073
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«Ensayo sobre la ceguera» is the novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (443 pages, in Spanish).
A man suddenly goes blind in the middle of the street: it is the first case of a «white blindness» that spreads uncontrollably. Confined in quarantine or lost through the city, those affected confront the most primitive aspects of the human being. Saramago traces a parable about the fragility of civilization and the responsibility of those who still see.
Work originally published in Portuguese in 1995 («Ensaio sobre a Cegueira»). This edition, translated by Basilio Losada, was published in 2001. Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
It is a work of contemporary fiction and dystopian fiction, intended for readers seeking an allegory 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."
