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Jose saramago, ‘blindness’
I hadn’t read this for many years but picked it up again during the COVID pandemic.
Its story of a fictional/unnamed country (most likely the author’s native Portugal) that finds itself in the middle of an inexplicable blindness epidemic - and subsequent social breakdown - felt eerily prescient during that 2020-21 time period.
Saramago won the Nobel Prize for literature and this book is at the top of his achievements IMO. In retrospect, very similar to a John Wyndham‘s 1951 novel "Day of the Triffids."
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@coreydubrowa
Feb 19, 2024
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@edtyap
Love Blindness…. Felt surreal rereading it during pandemic…
Feb 21, 2024
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@jimmeh
read this about 10 years ago, and will def need to pick it back up -- the lack of punctuation aside from periods was driving me crazy, lol.
Feb 20, 2024
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@coreydubrowa
jimmehgeebs Saramago is a big "use commas in big run-on sentences" kinda guy, ha.
Feb 20, 2024
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@edtyap
coreydubrowa jimmehgeebs I like to think of Saramago is the e.e.cummings of novelists ;)
Feb 21, 2024
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@coreydubrowa
edtyap That is a perfect way of looking at his work -- "you shall above all things be glad and young" etc. Form may. be > function in both cases.
Feb 21, 2024
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@edtyap
coreydubrowa lovely…I think the doctor’s wife favorite poem (recited in the church) is ”somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond”
Feb 22, 2024
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