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The blind are rounded up and quarantined with the first part of the book a tale of how the survivors cope left on their own and locked away. Study blindness by jose saramago quotes from the day i discovered blindness i have been a great fan of jose saramagos work. Myla goldberg says saramago vividly illustrates disasters potential to. An international bestseller this is a shattering work by a literary master. Primarily an allegorical piece of fiction, blindness is a literary masterpiece in terms of its subtle delineation of ironic humor and bleakness of existence. Boston globe a city is hit by an epidemic of white blindness which spares no one. It was well worn, somewhat battered and looked as though the previous owner was not its first. Excerpt from death with interruptions by jose saramago.
Inside, the criminal element among the blind holds the rest captive. Jose saramagos first reaction after watching the movie blindness with the director fernando meirelles in lisbon. In this work, entitled essay on or about blindness, jose saramago proposes a simple element with which he chooses to explore human traits. The embattled relationships among the people of a city mysteriously struck by an epidemic of blindness form the core of this superb novel by the internationally acclaimed saramago, the portugese author of, most recently, the history of the siege of lisbon 1997. Soft copy of book blindness author jose saramago completely free.
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A world wellknown portuguese writer jose saramago is not only considered as a talented author of such novels like death with interruptions and the gospel according to jesus christ, he is also a wellknown author for his awards in literature including the nobel prize. Analysis of blindness by jose saramago english literature. Born in portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of baltasar and blimunda. Jose saramago uses literary techniques in blindness that i dont usually like.
Here, though, they generate momentum, helping the stories and existential themes in blindness become so compelling that i had a hard time putting the book. Saramago quickly introduces the malady, recounting the first infection within the first few pages of the novel. Im unlikely to start, let alone finish, any novel that lacks quotation marks and contains pagelong paragraphs. Blindness depicts an epidemic of blindness that turns everything to an inchoate whiteness, bringing chaos and criminality in its wake.
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