Blindness

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She sees what needs to be done, but she must do it alone, and do it while the men sell-out her and every other woman in their ward (MEN OF WARD ONE—YOU SONS OF WHORES, I WILL NEVER, EVER FORGIVE YOU). However, there are some signs that hint that the country is Saramago's homeland of Portugal: the main character is shown eating chouriço, a spicy sausage, and some dialogue in the original Portuguese employs the familiar "tu" second-person singular verb form (a distinction absent in most of Brazil). So imagine a disease that prompted sudden blindness; that spread from one person to another quicker than the common cold.

Once the group escapes the quarantine, the old man becomes the lover of the girl with the dark glasses. Hers read like lines in a “B” (at best) grade movie: “We are already half dead, said the doctor, We are still half alive too, answered his wife,” “The woman I was then wouldn’t have said it, I agree, the person who said it was the woman I am today, Let’s see then what the woman you will be tomorrow will have to say…” and “it is his duty to follow her, one never knows when one might have to dry more tears. The author here has created a society descending into complete ciaos but also has to take into account what would happen if everyone went suddenly blind. 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. In 1998, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Blindness was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award.When the group from his ward finally escapes they end up travelling to and staying in the doctor and his wife's apartment. The dystopian tale follows a group of characters as they come to terms with sudden blindness that ultimately affects the entire population.

Being raped by one man is bad enough, but when being raped by several men a woman has become an object, not even an object of desire, but merely a receptacle for lust. There must be a government, said the first blind man, I'm not so sure, but if there is, it will be a government of the blind trying to rule the blind, that is to say, nothingness trying to organize nothingness. s Nobel Prize winner for Literature, José Saramoga, has, with his astonishing and superb story Blindness , written one of the finest European novels of the last 20 or 30 years.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. Shortly before his death, Saramago gave German composer Anno Schreier the rights to compose an opera based on the novel.

There is omniscient third person narrator amidst the changing but reliable narrative voices who, at times, tries to pull the reader into narrative showing glimpses of metafiction. The plot is a fairly standardised tale of apocalypse and epidemic,with excrement,rape and rotting corpses thrown in for gritty realism. Here we are with a bunch of people who no longer can rely on their sight so, in not giving them names, Saramago also puts us in the dark, forcing us to rely instead on personal characteristics and descriptions given to conjure these characters ourselves. With "Blindness," published in 1995, the future Nobel Prize winner José Saramago signs an incredibly realistic fiction in which bestiality quickly precedes all humanity. The power of this book was quite overwhelming at times and I had to stop reading for a few days at a time.Gradually, she becomes “eye” to the main characters of the story as their existence become solely dependent on her will and act. The man with the gun is the leader of the ward of hoodlums that seizes control of the food supply in the quarantine.