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On Sunday, January 18 we'll meet to discuss the novel Blindness (pub. 1998) by Jose Saramago.
About Blindness: A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a powerful portrayal of our worst appetites and weaknesses — and humanity's ultimately exhilarating spirit.
About the author: José Saramago (1922–2010) was a Portuguese writer and 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 a transcending human factor.
