Blindness

Jose Saramago's novel grips you in the opening scene with the mysterious white blindness happening to the man at the traffic light. The characters are nameless. The puncutation is lacking. Once you adapt to this way of storytelling, you are engrossed. As we endure the hardship of the "illness" throughout the book, we learn how fear can rule us and human understanding can leave us. Some parts ... read more

A man waiting at stoplight is struck blind. This "white blindness" epidemic spreads like a wildfire. Isolated, in quarantine, or lost around the city, the blind must face the most primitive of human nature: the struggle to survive at any price. José Saramago, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, builds a parable about the human being, that holds the most sublime and miserable in every o... read more