Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards. Inside, the criminal element among the blind hold the rest captive: food rations are stolen, women are raped. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guid...
Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards. Inside, the criminal element among the blind hold the rest captive: food rations are stolen, women are raped. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers through the barren streets. The developments within this oddly anonymous group -- the first blind man, the old man with the black eye patch, the girl with dark glasses, the boy with no mother, and the dog of tears -- are as uncanny as the surrounding chaos is harrowing.
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A parable of loss and disorientation, of man's worst appetities and hopeless weaknesses, Blindness is one of the most challenging, thought-provoking, and ultimately exhilarating novels published in any language in recent years.
Fortunately, as human history has shown, it is not unusual for good to come of evil, less is said about the evil that can come out of good, such are the contradictions of this world of ours, some war... Fortunately, as human history has shown, it is not unusual for good to come of evil, less is said about the evil that can come out of good, such are the contradictions of this world of ours, some warrant more consideration than others, in this instance the good was precisely the fact that the wards have only one door, thanks to this factor, the fi(展开)
0 有用 奶牛女皇 2010-06-28
Bone-chilling 什么样的充分必要条件可以导致人被兽化?
1 有用 Chillax 2008-01-19
the blindness of humanity
0 有用 F a b l e 2012-08-09
一个人坐飞机千万不能买这种越看越绝望的书。。。
0 有用 抽抽经会被虐 2014-06-07
实在太精彩了!眼盲还是心盲,在这种混沌世界里,我们到底能看见什么。太伤心的是读完小说,发现译者还没有翻译完就过世了。
0 有用 白色潮退 2021-01-21
比霍乱时期的爱情更应景2020 p. 114
0 有用 VicZ 2021-02-05
这种恨不得一页就是一句话的文体读来实在太爽。另外纸质书的感觉真好。
0 有用 白色潮退 2021-01-21
比霍乱时期的爱情更应景2020 p. 114
0 有用 麥暗 2020-12-20
Fortunately, as human history has shown, it is not unusual for good to come of evil, less is said about the evil that can come out of good, such are the contradictions of this world of ours, some war... Fortunately, as human history has shown, it is not unusual for good to come of evil, less is said about the evil that can come out of good, such are the contradictions of this world of ours, some warrant more consideration than others, in this instance the good was precisely the fact that the wards have only one door, thanks to this factor, the fi (展开)
0 有用 thesnackclub 2020-05-27
很幸运的是 Blindness这本书陪着我走进了2020年 它是迄今为止我读过的书里面我最爱的一本 这半个月以来每一天的阅读都让我感叹José Saramago的语言和思想 他看到别人看不到的 想别人不敢想的 人性中的污浊肮脏 对欲望的渴求和不满足 以及人在绝望的困境中对自己生而为人的尊严的维护和坚持 这无疑是一本dystopian的小说 在展现人性对金钱对性对征服对杀戮对生存的本能时 也不忘提醒... 很幸运的是 Blindness这本书陪着我走进了2020年 它是迄今为止我读过的书里面我最爱的一本 这半个月以来每一天的阅读都让我感叹José Saramago的语言和思想 他看到别人看不到的 想别人不敢想的 人性中的污浊肮脏 对欲望的渴求和不满足 以及人在绝望的困境中对自己生而为人的尊严的维护和坚持 这无疑是一本dystopian的小说 在展现人性对金钱对性对征服对杀戮对生存的本能时 也不忘提醒读者 去看 去看见 去观察 一个人的灵魂 一个社会的灵魂 (展开)
0 有用 commecadumode 2019-06-23
What a thrill