Ebook {Epub PDF} Blindness by José Saramago

 · Blindness by Jose Saramago is not a book that you read more than once. It is a suffocating immersive dive into the failings of human nature. It is chaos. Blindness tells the story of an anonymous city that is stricken with a mysterious illness that blinds a majority of the population. A man is suddenly and mysteriously www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. Blindness Summary. Buy Study Guide. José Saramago's Blindness starts out with one man spontaneously going blind in the middle of rush hour. Confused and scared, a crowd gathers, their frustration forgotten, and one man offers to drive him home. Once he has the blind man home, he proceeds to steal the first blind man's car. Blindness, a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago, depicts the dystopian outcome of a plague of white blindness, (clunky) a mysterious disease that eventually becomes known among the novel’s characters as the “white evil.”. Saramago quickly introduces the malady, recounting the first infection within the first few pages of the novel.

José Saramago's Blindness starts out with one man spontaneously going blind in the middle of rush hour. Confused and scared, a crowd gathers, their frustration forgotten, and one man offers to drive him home. Once he has the blind man home, he proceeds to steal the first blind man's car. 75 Books Challenge for Group Read "Blindness" by Jose Saramago: 33 unread / UnrulySun, April Book talk: MISSING by Jose Saramago: 4 unread / 4: www.doorway.ruez, June 75 Books Challenge for Blindness Group Read: Week Two (Spoiler Thread) 45 unread / spacepotatoes, October From Blindness to Seeing with José Saramago "Western societies, became increasingly blind; because instead of tackling the big problems, we preferred to see less." (José Saramago) Our twenty-second interview is with Burghard Baltrusch, literary scholar (Vigo, Spain) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Wednesday, Janu.

Blindness by Jose Saramago In José Sarama go's novel, "Whi te Sickness," an epidemic of the "w hite sickness," a disease that immediately blinds its victims, takes hold in an unnamed city. JOSÉ SARAMAGO (–) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Blindness is in many ways a horrific novel, detailing as it does the total breakdown in society that follows upon this most unnatural disaster. Saramago takes his characters to the very edge of humanity and then pushes them over the precipice.