![]() ![]() But then, as abruptly as the catastrophe began, everything changes in a wry denouement suggesting that what we've observed (as it were) amounts to an existential test of these characters’ courage and mutual tolerance. And on it goes, until the city’s afflicted blind are “quarantined” in an unused mental ward the guards ensuring their incarceration panic and begin to shoot and a paternalistic “Ministry” runs out of strategies to oversee “an uprooted, exhausted world” in a state of escalating chaos. A busy ophthalmologist follows, then two of his patients. ![]() The “false Samaritan” who helps him home and then steals his car is the next victim. The embattled relationships among the people of a city mysteriously struck by an epidemic of blindness form the core of this superb novel by the internationally acclaimed Saramago, the Portugese author of, most recently, The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1997).Ī driver stalled at a busy intersection suddenly suffers an attack of “white blindness” (no other color, or any shape, is discernible). ![]()
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