Ensaio sobre a cegueira (or Essay on Blindness, usually known as just Blindness) is a novel written by José Saramago. Released in 1995, it tells of a city which is affected by a plague of blindness.
Characters[]
- The doctor's wife
- The doctor
- The girl with the dark glasses
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Publisher's summary[]
No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order.
Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers.
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white 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. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilised society are snapped.
This is not anarchy, this is blindness.
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Book of Disquiet | Fernando Pessoa | 1982 | Another major work of Portuguese literature |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 1605-1615 | Another work of Iberian societal satire |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 1954 | A similar social satire |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1945 | A similar social satire |