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In 1998, saramago also became the first portugueselanguage writer to win the nobel prize for literature. Dec 28, 2010 jose saramago tells the grim tale of a city devastated by an epidemic of blindness. Saramago was a proponent of anarchocommunism, failed verification and a member of the communist party of portugal, however, in his. Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning essay on blindness is a novel by portuguese author jose saramago.
A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of white blindness, which spares no one. The novel is hugely rewarding and saramago tells us much about the dangers we face today and the facile political assumptions, such as democracy and law and order, that so many of us take for granted. A stunningly powerful novel of humanitys will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the nobel p. Saramago famously names no characters, places, or time periods in blindness, which is intended as a universal allegory for human experience, capable of taking place anywhere, at any time. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read blindness. Myla goldberg says saramago vividly illustrates disasters potential to bring out both the best and the worst.
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