Blindness
1995 • 349 pages
Ratings112
Average rating4
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Ratings112
Average rating4
Una ceguera blanca se expande de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos por la ciudad, los ciegos deben enfrentarse a lo más primitivo de la especie humana: la voluntad de sobrevivir a cualquier precio.
José Saramago, Premio Nobel de Literatura 1998, teje una aterradora parábola acerca del ser humano, que encierra lo más sublime y miserable de nosotros mismos.
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2 primary booksBlindness is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1995 with contributions by José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero, and Margaret Jull Costa.
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This book was interesting, but it wasn't meant to be. I went to book club after half finishing it and learned that later in the book is what someone described as “the most horrible rape scene they'd ever read in a book.” We discussed the ending and I decided not to finish it.
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Read this along with 2 senior AP Lit classes. While I really loved discussing the book with the students, I didn't love the book. In fact I plain didn't like it, though I appreciated a good portion of the writing, even though there was some heavy-handedness at times. I definitely had to take emotional breaks when it was at peak humanity's-descent-to-hell. I'm not sure I'm ever getting that pivotal blood/semen/shit gang rape & murder scene out of my head, unfortunately.
amazing premise but i can't get over that writing style, my head HURTS
A strange, grotesque novel but allegorical and fascinating. Four stars for intrigue and creativity, though it's not one I ever plan to reread.
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