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Blindness (Paperback)
Short Description for BlindnessA driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs.
Full description- Publisher: The Harvill Press
- Published: 05 July 2012
- Format: Paperback 320 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781860466854 ISBN 10: 1860466850
- Sales rank: 4,100
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Reviews for Blindness
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A great dystopia
This is the first book I've read of Jose Saramago and it was worth it. In the novel, the writer managed to create a tragic, destroyed world, were people are struggling to survive from something impossible: an epidemic of blindness. Everything starts one normal day, in a nameless town, in a nameless country. A man blinds all of a sudden, in the car, while he is waiting for the lights to turn green. Here begins the entire epidemic. The only person who isn't touched by the disease is the ophthalmologist's wife, who is forced to see the terrifying scenes: the chaos on the streets, the dirt in the asylum, the destroyed town.
"Blindness" is a perfect example of what could happen if such a tragedy happened. No other writer has presented in his books the consequences of a disease which can't exist in real life. There are many question marks during the story and we don't get an answer, not even at the end of the book. Therefore, it is all up to us, to find one. by Andreea Irimies
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