![]() Normally, I am quite good at blocking out other people’s conversations when I use public transport but this person was particularly loud and scary. Initially, I couldn’t tell if it was because of the extremely long paragraphs of densely written prose or because the woman sitting near me on the train was threatening to smash someone’s face in. When I first started reading this book, I found it quite hard to concentrate. Only the doctor’s wife is still able to see for unknown reasons but she doesn’t reveal this fact. The blind are quarantined in a mental asylum and left to fend for themselves but criminals soon gain control as society rapidly breaks down completely. Several other characters who come into contact with him also lose their sight. The story begins with a man suddenly going blind as he is waiting in his car at some traffic lights. ‘Blindness’ by José Saramago is a fable about an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness which has unsurprisingly chaotic consequences. ![]()
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