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Blindness

  • Writer: Kathy Miller
    Kathy Miller
  • Oct 14, 2023
  • 1 min read

Updated: Aug 30

Josè Saramago, 1995

Date read: 10/14/2023


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We made our eyes a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny


So this was hard to read, especially the [spoiler] rape scenes, yes, plural[/spoiler]. It is essentially post apocalyptic, with all that entails.


The harder part for me is, I live in the Era of Covid. This is a novel about a pandemic.


The lack of names was interesting to me. I think, as was stated in the novel, that he meant to show people without their self identifications. However, women are usually "the wife of" which is insulting really.


I don't think it is a bad novel but I do not think it is a classic must read. Maybe it was the first to do what it does idk.

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