As Blindness reclaims the age-old story of a plague, it evokes the vivid and trembling horrors of the twentieth century, leaving readers with a powerful vision of the human spirit that’s bound both by weakness and exhilarating strength.
Blindness by José Saramago, a Nobel Prize–winning author, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss.
Photo Credits: New Yorker Magazine
Book Review by: Goodreads
Blindness ~ A Parable
A city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” that spares no one.
As Blindness reclaims the age-old story of a plague, it evokes the vivid and trembling horrors of the twentieth century, leaving readers with a powerful vision of the human spirit that’s bound both by weakness and exhilarating strength.
Blindness by José Saramago, a Nobel Prize–winning author, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss.
Photo Credits: New Yorker Magazine
Book Review by: Goodreads
As Blindness reclaims the age-old story of a plague, it evokes the vivid and trembling horrors of the twentieth century, leaving readers with a powerful vision of the human spirit that’s bound both by weakness and exhilarating strength.
Blindness by José Saramago, a Nobel Prize–winning author, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss.
Photo Credits: New Yorker Magazine
Book Review by: Goodreads
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness
Good one, Ela.
On Goodreads, his “final days” looked very painful. Too bad. But he sounds like a man worth knowing. Thanks, P! 🙂
It is a well written book. The movie is disturbing.