“In Blindness has written a profound, ultimately transcendent meditation on what it means to be human. “This is a shattering work by a literary master.” - Boston Globe “This is an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horrors of the century.” - Washington Post We should be grateful when it is handed to us in such generous measure.” - New York Times Book Review “Symphonic… a clear-eyed and compassionate acknowledgment of things as they are, a quality that can only honestly be termed wisdom.
In searing prose, bothĬomplex and minimal, all this and nothing more is revealed. Human frailty and community in the modern world. Ultimately, the greater meaning here is the simple story of Purpose, the characters act out life with all its paradoxes and hidden “To describe as allegory this story of unnamed characters in an unnamedĬity who are struggling with an undiagnosed epidemic of “whiteīlindness” is both too simple and too complex.
The stunningly powerful novel of man’s will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing.Ī magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man’s worst appetites and weaknesses-and man’s ultimately exhilarating spirit.
Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. A city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” which spares no one.
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