Jose Saramago’s Nobel Prize winning novel, Blindness, does little to camouflage man’s self-seeking and essentially evil nature. Instead, “man” is observed through the crosshairs of an increasingly devastating lens. As the novel begins, citizens of an unidentified city lose their eyesight. Instead of darkness, however, this seemingly contagious condition leaves its victims in a state [...]
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Blindness by Jose Saramago
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