Blindness

Josè Saramago, 1995

Date read: 10/14/2023

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.

Length: 394 pages in hardcover

Rereadability: no

Classic: no