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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.
Seeing (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a Lucidez, lit. Essay on Lucidity) is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago. The book was published in Portuguese in 2004 and then in English in 2006. Seeing is the sequel to one of Saramago's most famous works, Blindness.
José de Sousa Saramago GColSE GColCa (European Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ðɨ ˈsozɐ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."
Saramago originally refused to sell the rights for a film adaptation, but the producers were able to acquire it with the condition that the film would be set in an unnamed and unrecognizable city. Blindness premiered as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008, and was released in Canada as part of the Toronto International ...
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This World and the Other (original Portuguese title: Deste Mundo e do Outro) is a volume of newspaper articles by the Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago. It was first published in 1971. It was first published in 1971.
Forward Victor Eklund, brother of the San Jose Sharks' William Eklund, is playing for Sweden. World junior championships schedule, scores. The USA is in Group A with Canada, Finland, Germany and ...
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