Blindness

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Blindness is a masterpiece and an important reminder for us to be appreciative of several things that we take for granted, to look around and really see. I couldn't be with my family at dinner without discussing the pitfalls of the white blindness, I couldn't stop pestering my buddy Pedro, who got me into this mess in the first place, and I haven't had a decent night's sleep in a week. At times it is brutal almost to the point of unbearable but we need to remember that it draws on the events of twentieth century history (and beyond).

The doctor’s wife may also imply a type of internal narrator infused masterfully by the author to show the human virtues such as empathy, sympathy, co-ordination, assistance and perseverance amidst the madness of inhumanity. It all starts inexplicably when a man in his car suddenly starts seeing - or rather stops seeing anything but - a clear white brightness. Saramago has used quite intelligently one of the characters to infuse intrusive narration through “the doctor’s wife” whose eye balls remain utilitarian throughout the madness of Blind people. I didn't think it was the page turning allegorical attack on capitalism that some reviewers thought it was.

fuseseră părăsite [de oameni] toate laboratoarele, unde nu le rămînea bacteriilor altă soluţie de supravieţuire decît să se devoreze între ele. Whatever one’s feelings about José Saramago’s dystopian nightmare Blindness, you have to acknowledge its staying power.

An absorbing tale of murder, intrigue and revenge, this debut historical novel depicts Brazil under Portuguese colonial rule as a hotbed of vice, corruption and misery. There is only one ‘real’ blind person, someone who was already blind even before the pandemic, but he is one of the bad guys. I believe the book brings forward our fear/avoidance to see our mortality and the insignificance of our lives.I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Weaving together memories of his Portuguese childhood, Nobel Prize–winner Saramago (1922–2010) presents a lyrical portrait of the artist as a young man. If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals. And since disasters never come singly, at that same moment the electricians went blind who were responsible for maintaining the internal power supply and consequently that also of the generator, an old model, not automatic, that had long been awaiting replacement, this resulted, as we said before, in the elevator coming to a halt between the ninth and tenth floors. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. Soon after he went blind, the car thief and the first blind man re-encounter one another in the quarantine, where they soon come to blows.What may appear a position of fortune is essentially an unfortunate gift to her in the city of Blind people as she has to witness all the horrors, horrific acts through her experienced but numb eyes. However, much of the doctor's authority stems from his wife not having gone blind; she is able to see what is going on around the ward and relays what she sees to her husband. I have found something which one of its kind as far as narrative style of the book is concerned wherein narrative shift in the voices of characters may be identified with fist capital letter of the phrase, which may not be discernible immediately.