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Blindheten : roman by Jos Saramago
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Blindheten : roman (original 1995; edition 1997)

by Jos Saramago

Series: Blindness (1)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. HTML:A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
An International Bestseller • "This is a shattering work by a literary master."—Boston Globe
/> A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of our worst appetites and weaknesses—and humanity's ultimately exhilarating spirit.
"This is a an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horror of the century."—Washington Post
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year.… (more)
Member:araneida
Title:Blindheten : roman
Authors:Jos Saramago
Info:Stockholm: Wahlstrm & Widstrand, 1997; 263, [1] s. ; 22 cm
Collections:Your library
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Tags:novel, swedish

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Blindness by José Saramago (1995)

  1. 203
    The Road by Cormac McCarthy (browner56, ateolf, lilisin, petterw)
    browner56: Two harrowing, well-written looks at what we can expect when society breaks down
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  3. 70
    The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (infiniteletters)
  4. 60
    Lord of the Flies by William Golding (petterw)
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    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Simone2)
  6. 41
    In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster (BenTreat, Vonini)
    BenTreat: Both books are personal, tragic accounts of the collapse of civil society.
    Vonini: Same surreal feel, absent government, feeling of people being left to their fates, creeping despair, dismantling of society.
  7. 42
    José Saramago: A Consistência dos Sonhos - Cronobiografia by Fernando Gómez Aguilera (Ronoc)
  8. 20
    1984 by George Orwell (petterw)
  9. 20
    High-Rise by J. G. Ballard (bertilak)
  10. 10
    State of Siege by Albert Camus (colagold)
  11. 10
    Death with Interruptions by José Saramago (Birbuv)
  12. 00
    Into That Darkness by Steven Price (lkernagh)
  13. 00
    Seeing by José Saramago (icallithunger)
    icallithunger: These two books should be read together. They happen in the same universe and talk about some of the same themes- about fear, chaos and how far the human goes when faced with them.
  14. 12
    White Noise by Don DeLillo (chrisharpe)
  15. 12
    Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco (CGlanovsky)
    CGlanovsky: Surreal epidemic spreads through the population.
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Stad der blinden wauw!, Stad der zienden 1 sterretje minder. ( )
  AnkeL | Mar 24, 2024 |
One of my favorite books, and I don't tired of recommending it.

I have seen it described as brutal, as hard to read and I have to say that might be true as the book asks "How far would a person go, when there's no one around to watch? When there's nobody to judge?" And it delivers.

But this book is as hard as gratifying. This, along with Seeing, are two of this author's best works. ( )
  icallithunger | Mar 13, 2024 |
Abandoned during June 2021. Depressing and difficult style to get used to. Extra rough to read in a time so close to Covid.

Trying to read a bunch of books this summer and no time to waste on forcing a book that I don’t like just because others did enjoy it. (But how did they? Yikes!)
  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
This got a little too cerebral around 75% of the way through. I get it, but it was belaboring the same points in different ways. The end was great, but I was impatient for it to be over. ( )
  rabbit-stew | Dec 31, 2023 |
this was a really good book with many dark and depressing moments.there is not much of an explanation on how the blindness happens but i feel like that is what makes it more scary with the fear of the unknown. the characters are pretty good but the fact that they dont have names is a little weird but but you still remember them even without the name wish says a lot. the sad moments between characters were very well written as well.

overall a very good story that i would recommend if your in the mood for some dark content. ( )
1 vote XanaduCastle | Dec 28, 2023 |
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» Add other authors (82 possible)

Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Saramago, Joséprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Davis, JonathanNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Desti, RitaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Jull Costa, MargaretTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lemmens, HarrieTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mertin, Ray-GĂĽdeTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pontiero, GiovanniTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pontiero, GiovanniTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Weissová, LadaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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If you can see, look.
If you can look, observe.
FROM THE Book of Exhortations
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For Pilar
For my daughter Violante
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The amber light came on.
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...I want my parents to find me if they should return, If they should return, you yourself said it, and we have no way of knowing whether they will still be your parents, I don't understand, You said that the neighbour below was a good person at heart, Poor woman, Your poor parents, poor you, when you meet up, blind in eyes and blind in feelings, because the feelings with which we have lived and which allowed us to live as we were, depended on our having the eyes we were born with, without eyes feelings become something different, we do not know how, we do not know what, you say we're dead because we're blind, there you have it, Do you love your husband, Yes, as I love myself, but should I turn blind, if after turning blind I should no longer be the person I was, how would I then be able to go on loving him, and with what love, Before, when we could still see, there were also blind people, Few in comparison, the feelings in use were those of someone who could see, therefore blind people felt with the feelings of others, not as the blind people they were, now, certainly, what is emerging are the real feelings of the blind, and we're still only at the beginning, for the moment we still live on the memory of what we felt, you don't need eyes to know what life has become today, if anyone were to tell me that one day I should kill, I'd take it as an insult, and yet I've killed...
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Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. HTML:A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
An International Bestseller • "This is a shattering work by a literary master."—Boston Globe
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of our worst appetites and weaknesses—and humanity's ultimately exhilarating spirit.
"This is a an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horror of the century."—Washington Post
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year.

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