quick read, fairly clear allegory about "white blindness" which strikes an unnamed portuguese / latin american city. same type of Pablo Coehlho slightly didactic , Marquez prose. detail by detail account of degeneration of community and society outside, provides multiple possible readings-- politica...
Wow.That's all I can say right now, wow. This quote from the last page sums up everything, somehow:"I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see."And I shall leave it at that.
Blindness had been on my post-apocalyptic to-read list for months, but a chance encounter at a local bookstore and the chance discovery of a book club—set to read Blindness that very week—put it on my fast track. I bought the book, and I spent three days in its nightmarish, reeking, broken world. ...
"Ricardo Reis lowers the newspaper to look at himself in the mirror, a reflection that is twice deceiving because it shows a deep space then shows that the space is a mere surface where nothing actually happens, only the illusion, external and silent, of persons and things, a tree overhanging a lak...
A good book. I think that it is perhaps a little overrated, and should not quite deserve the reputation that it has. Essentially an apocalyptic book about the world going blind. It has a lot of philosophical asides which are so-so. Interesting view of human beings.The whole thing reminds me of a...
I wanted to like this book but I didn’t, I did manage to read the whole thing and it was a struggle. There is a blindness epidemic and the blind are put in an unused hospital for the insane. Only one sighted person manages to accompany her husband and she had to do everything. I found the characters...
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