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(5 pp) When the Swedish academy released the
Award of Literature in 1998 to Jose Saramgo, they
did so with the commendation, 'who with
parables sustained by imagination, compassion and
irony continually enables us once again to
apprehend an elusory reality.' Blindness: a novel
continues that tradition, and it is indeed a
serious teaching tale that will take your breath
away,and once you have returned to the real world
will stay with your for a very long time.
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that tradition, and it is indeed a serious teaching tale that will take your breath away,and once you have returned to the real world will stay with your for a
very long time. BBsarmgo.doc JOSE SARAMAGO: Blindness (1995) Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the
Paperstore, Inc., November 2000 Introduction When the Swedish academy released the Award of Literature in 1998 to Jose Saramago, they did so with the commendation,
"who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." Blindness: a novel continues that
tradition. Yet this is a serious teaching tale - one that will take your breath away. The story An unknown plague strikes a mediums size city, it causes blindness,
as quickly as the turning of a stop light. In fact that is how the novel starts. A man is at a stop light and before it turns
green he is blind. A few days after he is struck, all those with whom he came in contact are blind as well. The physicians who have examined
those few, see no apparent cause for the malady, and it does not leave people in the darkness, but rather in a white light - a white blindness.
The victims are "plunged into a whiteness so luminous, so total, that it swallowed up rather than absorbed, not just the colors, but the very things and beings, thus
making them twice as invisible" If you have ever driven in a thick fog, you would have half a sense of what this would be like, because in the
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