Blindness

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Blindness ( Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. Finally, hey woman who can see: why not grab a damn flashlight when going down a dark hall or worrying about night setting in? His translation of the Saramago work The Gospel According to Jesus Christ was awarded the Teixeira-Gomes Prize for Portuguese translation. If she reveals her advantage, she may be forced to abandon her blind husband and she may be misused for ill gain. A good belt or a pair of shoes or a glass of water or a sandwich are the only things of any real value anymore.

The reason there is a standard way of writing is that it is easy for us all to understand rather than having to adapt to anyone's idiosyncratic idea of spelling and grammar.We only start to see that we do not see when we turn blind and there is a disruption in our unseeing complacency. They're a “power couple,” so to speak, the types of pillars of society that have the mayor over for dinner. It has since been performed at a number of venues, including the Old College Quad of the University of Edinburgh during the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

There are lots of great themes in the novel, exploring the human condition and how we fail ourselves; and yet, eventually overcome the most severe circumstances.This ward extorts valuables from the other internees in exchange for food and, when the "goods" (such as bracelets and watches run out) they begin to rape the women. Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, not one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind. G. Wells 'In the Country of the Blind' the only person who can see suffers great discrimination and has to agree to have his eyes removed and become as blind as the rest of the people who over the generations have adapted to life without vision. If she conceals her advantage, she can not communicate to others the bad shit that's taking place all around them. It may have been written 23 years ago, but few works bar possibly Camus’ The Plague seem more immediately relevant in a world of Covid-19 lockdown.

But in no time you'll get used to his simplistic style - not in any way devoid of meaning or deepness -, and you'll realize that it actually adds to this reading experience as you'll be going faster through the words; with fewer pauses and breaks, you'll find yourself feeling suffocated and almost breathless, which will only add to the book's atmosphere of urgency, anxiety and despair.Given the characters' blindness, some of their names seem ironic ("the boy with the squint" or "the girl with the dark glasses"). I will finish this review with the plea in the epigraph for this thought-provoking eye-opening (no pun intended) book: "If you can see, look. Instead, we get a nagging haunting feeling that the real blindness was there all along - the blindness towards the others, the blindness towards our real selves, and the physical blindness served as a way to unveil it.

Their existence has been suspended between being and nothingness, as if it doesn’t matter to those who are still considered civilized, but yet to be thrown in the hell of nothingness. This man is not one of those afflicted by the "white sickness"—rather he has been blind since birth. The doctor's wife reminded me of so many women I have known who have been abandoned by their partners. All of the internees are asked to bring all their valuables to be assessed and traded for food and water. I suppose the voice in my head did quite a good job in reading it as I did not encounter any difficulty to follow the narration.An allegory of the breakdown of civilisation, Blindness is also the story of those who finally start resisting raw violence and brutal force, and of those who see through the darkness.