by Jose Saramago · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · tapa dura · ISBN 9780151012381
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«Seeing» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in hardback (307 pages, in English).
Four years after the epidemic of blindness that collapsed the capital, an election day ends with 83% blank votes. The novel follows the authorities' attempts to understand and curb that collective gesture until declaring a state of emergency, and in its second half recovers characters from Blindness.
Second installment of the Blindness series. The Portuguese original, «Ensaio Sobre a Lucidez», was published in 2004; the English translation is by Margaret Jull Costa.
For readers of contemporary fiction and political dystopias, especially those who have read Blindness.
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."
