by Herbert George Wells · Nórdica Libros S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415717836
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A mountaineer named Núñez, in his attempt to climb the Parascotopetl, the Matterhorn of the Andes, slips and falls down a snowy slope. When he gets up, he is stunned to find himself in a valley isolated from the rest of the world by deep precipices, the Country of the Blind. The ancestors of its inhabitants fled Spanish repression and a strange disease spread among them, causing all their descendants to be born blind. Núñez believes that it will be easy to dominate them, since according to the saying "In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Published in 1904 in The Strand Magazine, this story is one of the most brilliant texts on blindness as a metaphor. It addresses issues such as human knowledge and society, and shows how the community subjects the different to its beliefs, eliminating it for being different.
