by José Saramago · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420441542
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«Ensayo sobre la ceguera» is the novel by José Saramago published by Alfaguara in paperback (373 pages, in Spanish).
A man goes blind at a traffic light: it is the first case of a «white blindness» that spreads fulminantly. In quarantine or lost, those affected face the most primitive side of human nature: the will to survive at any cost. The epidemic becomes a parable about the fragility of civilization.
First installment of the «Ceguera» series. Originally published in Portuguese in 1995 under the title «Ensaio sobre a Cegueira»; this Spanish edition is from 1998.
A common reading in book clubs and recommended for those interested in dystopias and contemporary fiction.
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."
