This novel eschews conventional punctuation and paragraphs, moves between the first and third person, and shifts tense and perspective it blends narrative, description, and dialogue to create a dreamlike fl ow of voices and episodes that reflect on the idea of blindness in all its permutations. Saramago’s narrative uses the literal blindness of almost all the inhabitants of his city as a political, psychological, and spiritual metaphor.īlindness is written in a distinctive style that Saramago developed when he returned to literature after a 20-year hiatus.
A speculative parable reminiscent of Albert Camus’s The Plague, Blindness examines the reasons for a mysterious social and moral breakdown in a typical modern city. His novel Blindness is considered one of his most outstanding literary achievements.
José Saramago (1922–2010 ), one of Portugal’s most famous writers, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1988.
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