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Blindness

by José Saramago

Summary

An unexplained epidemic of "white blindness" strikes a city. The infected are herded into a quarantined asylum where society's structures rapidly collapse. Saramago's Nobel Prize-winning allegory of human vulnerability and moral failure.

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José Saramago

Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate (1922–2010) known for his unconventional punctuation and grammatical style, which strips dialogue from quotation marks and blurs voices. His allegories use collective protagonists to examine political and moral crises.

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Published
1995
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José Saramago