by José Saramago · Punto de Lectura S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466312301
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«Ensayo sobre la ceguera» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback, with 336 pages, in Spanish.
A strange epidemic of white blindness spreads through a city and those affected end up confined, in an enclosure where the most primitive instincts emerge. Saramago turns this extreme situation into a parable about the fragility of civilization, identity, and the tension between cruelty and solidarity.
First installment of the «Ceguera» series.
It is aimed at readers of contemporary fiction and dystopian fiction; José Saramago won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
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."
