by José Saramago · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466319591
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«Ensayo sobre la lucidez» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in hardback (384 pages, in Spanish).
In a municipal election in an unnamed city, most voters decide to cast a spontaneous and massive blank vote. The government, fearing that this revolutionary gesture might destabilize a degenerate democracy, attributes it to a conspiracy and sets the sewers of power in motion: the guilty must be found or invented. The plot follows a police inspector and the woman who kept her sight during the white blindness epidemic of «Ensayo sobre la ceguera», in a parable about freedom, civic responsibility, and the limits of power.
Second part of the series begun with «Ensayo sobre la ceguera». Work originally published in 2004 (original title: «Ensaio sobre a Lucidez»). Includes references to the author's Nobel Prize in Literature.
For readers of contemporary fiction and political or dystopian novels seeking Saramago's prose and its thematic continuation of «Ensayo sobre la ceguera».
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."
