Ensaio sobre a cegueira

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José Saramago: Ensaio sobre a cegueira (Portuguese language, 1995, Caminho)

310 pages

Portuguese language

Published Aug. 31, 1995 by Caminho.

ISBN:
978-972-21-1021-1
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4 stars (1 review)

Una ceguera blanca se expande de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos por la ciudad, los ciegos deben enfrentarse a lo más primitivo de la especie humana: la voluntad de sobrevivir a cualquier precio.

José Saramago, Premio Nobel de Literatura 1998, teje una aterradora parábola acerca del ser humano, que encierra lo más sublime y miserable de nosotros mismos.

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Review of 'Blindness' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

One can think of COVID-19 as a pandemic of the loss of the sense of smell, what if it was a another sense? Saramago wrote this story. Loved the writing and I couldn't put it down (finished it in two days). Nothing, from what we know about how people, the body or epidemics work, is realistic and it is of course quite cruel to blind people but still a damn good story.