by José Saramago · Punto De Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466320511
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Essay on Lucidity is a novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago, published in 2004. The story takes place in an anonymous city where, during an election, the majority of voters cast blank ballots. This act of protest triggers a series of unexpected events and tests the foundations of society and political power. The novel explores themes such as democracy, corruption, surveillance, and the nature of power, inviting reflection on civic responsibility and the fragility of institutions.
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."
