Blindness was adapted to film and was directed by Fernando Meirelles and starred Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. With a grim, sometimes monotonously repetitive accumulation of detail, he constructs what in some respects could be a circle of Dantean hell." (Los Angeles Times Sunday). While the narrator muses that it is probably for some mechanical reason, the other drivers start beat ing furiously on the car’s closed windows. When the light turns green, one car fails to advance. "Blindness is the darkest and most concentrated of Saramago's books. A traffic light turns red, and drivers impatiently wait for pedestrians to cross. He has more books to write." (The Houston Chronicle). It's a major contribution to Saramago's oeuvre. A few pages into Jose Saramagos Blindness, I was reminded of Albert Camus essay on Franz Kafka. Blindness is "bounding in the perseverance and hope (and absurdity and horror) of everyday lives, Blindness is of the ages: profound by being elemental. By Jose Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero. Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the greatest living novelist" and considers him to be "a permanent part of the Western canon (Evans, 2002). The Portugese writer Jose Saramago is the recipient of both the 1995 Camões Prize and 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. Presentation copy, inscribed by Jose Saramago on the title page. $2,500.00 Item Number: 138766įirst Portuguese edition and true first of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece.
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