- Editorial:
- VINTAGE (UK)
- Año de edición:
- 2013
- Materia
- General fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-957358-6
- Páginas:
- 320
- Encuadernación:
- Rústica
BLINDNESS
SARAMAGO, JOSE
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city.
Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilised society are snapped. No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order.
This is not anarchy, this is blindness.