by José Saramago · Editorial Caminho · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722110211
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Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira is a novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago, published in 1995. The story tells how an inexplicable epidemic of white blindness spreads rapidly through a city, plunging the population into chaos and despair. As society crumbles, those affected struggle to survive in a world where sight, the most precious sense, has been lost.
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
