by José Saramago · Alfaguara · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420407548
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«Ensayo sobre la ceguera» is the dystopian novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in hardcover (421 pages, in Spanish).
An epidemic of white, inexplicable blindness spreads through a city and dismantles social life: confined in quarantine or lost in the streets, those affected confront the most primitive aspects of human nature. The novel reflects on the fragility of civilization and on the meaning of hope when sight is lost.
Translation from the Portuguese by Basilio Losada; original title «Ensaio sobre a Cegueira» (1995). First installment of the Blindness series. Biblioteca Saramago collection.
For readers of literary fiction and dystopias; frequently featured in book clubs for its portrayal of the human condition and social collapse.
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."
