Death at Intervals - Jose Saramago

Jose Saramago in general

joy from start to finish and I’m not even religious. So in summary I would recommend anyone to try Jose Saramago, not least of which because he tells a good yarn but also because you get the sense that he is an honest man, full of virtue, intelligent but not pushy, not self obsessed and more than aware of his own limitations. Enjoy. ...

Jose Saramago in general

joy from start to finish and I’m not even religious. So in summary I would recommend anyone to try Jose Saramago, not least of which because he tells a good yarn but also because you get the sense that he is an honest man, full of virtue, intelligent but not pushy, not self obsessed and more than aware of his own limitations. Enjoy. ...

Blindness - Jose Saramago

Jose Saramago is a Portugese writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, shortly after the publication of his latest book, 'Blindness'. In this novel, the occupants of an unspecified city are struck with an epidemic of blindness, which causes their sight to turn completely white. The epidemic begins when a driver is struck blind while waiting at a set of traffic lights, and visits an ophthalmologist, who subsequently becomes blind overnight. Soon, the city's authorities take drastic action to attempt to contain the disease, sending the blind, and those that have been exposed to them, into quarantine in a disused mental asylum, maintained by armed guards. ...

Blindness - Jose Saramago

Jose Saramago is a Portugese writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, shortly after the publication of his latest book, 'Blindness'. In this novel, the occupants of an unspecified city are struck with an epidemic of blindness, which causes their sight to turn completely white. The epidemic begins when a driver is struck blind while waiting at a set of traffic lights, and visits an ophthalmologist, who subsequently becomes blind overnight. Soon, the city's authorities take drastic action to attempt to contain the disease, sending the blind, and those that have been exposed to them, into quarantine in a disused mental asylum, maintained by armed guards. ...

Blindness - Jose Saramago

like an uphill struggle, but I am pleased I read it and thought I’d share my thoughts and feelings on it with you. I hadn’t heard of Jose Saramago before, but he apparently won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. As this novel was originally written in Portuguese, I had to read an English version of Blindness, this one being published by Panther and translated by Giovanni Pontiero. My whole reason for picking up this book was for the wonderfully fascinating story. In an ordinary city in modern times, a man sitting in his car suddenly goes blind without any previous symptoms or prior warning. Another man on the scene at the time offers to drive the ...

Blindness - Jose Saramago

like an uphill struggle, but I am pleased I read it and thought I’d share my thoughts and feelings on it with you. I hadn’t heard of Jose Saramago before, but he apparently won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. As this novel was originally written in Portuguese, I had to read an English version of Blindness, this one being published by Panther and translated by Giovanni Pontiero. My whole reason for picking up this book was for the wonderfully fascinating story. In an ordinary city in modern times, a man sitting in his car suddenly goes blind without any previous symptoms or prior warning. Another man on the scene at the time offers to drive the ...