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Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortune of a handful of unnamed characters who are among the first to be stricken with blindness, including an ophthalmologist, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance.
[11] [12] On Turner Classic Movies, Margarita Landazuri said: "Dark Victory was a three-hanky hit. Filmgoers and critics alike knew their emotions were being manipulated, but so expertly and touchingly that they couldn't help but cheer." [4] The film is mentioned in the play Steel Magnolias, by Clairee in Act Two, Scene 1. [13]
[5] [6] Em Strang wrote in The Guardian that translating the book into English was a benefit as it highlighted the book's thematic exploration of language. [7] TIME named the book one of the 100 must-read books of 2023, calling it a "profoundly sad yet hopeful look at the connection that comes with shared language—even when it is not spoken."
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Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, [2] the second of four children from a working-class, Black family, in Lorain, Ohio, to Ramah (née Willis) and George Wofford. [3] Her mother was born in Greenville, Alabama , and moved north with her family as a child.
He meets a group of blind people who appear to be happy, but his sense of dissatisfaction at losing the most marvelous of the senses is contagious and spreads through the group. Carlos, one of the students at the institute, attempts to ease Ignacio's depression but does not succeed.
Going Blind is a feature-length documentary about vision loss in the United States. Directed by Joseph Lovett, produced by Joseph Lovett and Hilary Klotz Steinman and edited by Jason Szabo and Jamie Hogan. Going Blind premiered at the World Ophthalmology Congress in Berlin in June 2010 and opened in New York at the Quad Cinema in October 2010.
The Light That Failed is the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling, first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said.