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His move to Lanzarote marked a shift in his fiction. His later books, set in unspecified countries, are less tangibly rooted in Portuguese life and history, or the streets and storms of Lisbon. The speculative element has come to the fore. Another writer of speculative fiction, Ursula K Le Guin, admires in them the "sound, sweet humour" and simplicity of a "great artist in full control of his art". Yet for the novelist Helder Macedo, emeritus professor of Portuguese at King's College London, Saramago has always been a "writer of allegories with a universal outlook. His starting-point is not 'once upon a time', but 'what if?'." For Saramago, "my work is about the possibility of the impossible. I ask the reader to accept a pact; even if the idea is absurd, the important thing is to imagine its development. The idea is the point of departure, but the development is always rational and logical." From that point in the story, I was so focused on revenge, I became the goddamned Count of Monte Cristo. I couldn't be with my family at dinner without discussing the pitfalls of the white blindness, I couldn't stop pestering my buddy Pedro, who got me into this mess in the first place, and I haven't had a decent night's sleep in a week. The leader of the thugs is a cruel, gun-toting criminal who leads the gang of blind patients that takes over the hospital and starts controlling its food supply. At first, he demands that all…

Third: Unfortunately, the only constant that the narrative voice does have is a meaninglessly verbose style. While I laud Nabokov for one sentence that appears to be a paragraph, that is only because that sentence is composed of so many beautiful parts (all punctuated correctly, no less) that work together to create an even more beautiful image. This writing is more akin to the wandering, rambling speech of Grandpa Simpson which, while hilarious on The Simpsons, has no place within this story.

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This fiction's strangeness must accentuate by the Portuguese writer's particular syntax in which the comma is queen. An early band of affected citizens is sent to a mental ward, in the hopes of containing this sudden epidemic of blindness. Only one among them can see, a woman as unnamed as anyone else in the story, but we come to know her as “the doctor's wife.” Fernando Meirelles to Direct Blindness". ComingSoon.net. Crave Online Media, LLC. 2006-09-13. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30 . Retrieved 2007-06-18. This is the novel Saramago was writing when he won the Nobel Prize in 1998. La caverna has the abundant compassion, subtlety, and wit of his earlier works, such as Blindness (Ensayo sobre la Continue reading »

Garrett, Stephen (2008-05-15). "First Look from Cannes: A Review of Blindness". Esquire. Hearst Corporation . Retrieved 2008-05-20. Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, Saramago (History of the Siege of Lisbon) departs from his signature dense, inventive linguistic style and historically encompassing subjects to offer a Continue reading »Tens of Thousands of Blind Americans Object to the Movie 'Blindness' ". American Council of the Blind. 2008-09-29. Archived from the original on 2008-10-07 . Retrieved 2008-10-01. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter described Blindness as "provocative but predictable cinema", startling but failing to surprise. Honeycutt criticized the film's two viewpoints: Julianne Moore's character, the only one who can see, is slow to act against atrocities, and the behavior of Danny Glover's character comes off as "slightly pompous". Honeycutt explained, "This philosophical coolness is what most undermines the emotional response to Meirelles' film. His fictional calculations are all so precise and a tone of deadly seriousness swamps the grim action." [38] Justin Chang of Variety described the film: " Blindness emerges onscreen both overdressed and undermotivated, scrupulously hitting the novel's beats yet barely approximating, so to speak, its vision." Chang thought that Julianne Moore gave a strong performance but did not feel that the film captured the impact of Saramago's novel. [39] Roger Ebert called Blindness "one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films I've ever seen." [40] A. O. Scott of The New York Times stated that, although it "is not a great film, ... it is, nonetheless, full of examples of what good filmmaking looks like." [41] Saramago has blended fact and fiction in much the same way as Marquez and others use magical realism, to create an elegantly written, surrealistic reflection on life in 18th century Portugal. It is a Continue reading »

a b "The screen jury at the Cannes Film Festival, 2008". Screen International. Archived from the original on March 18, 2009 . Retrieved 2008-06-12. Blindness was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008 as a Special Presentation. [31] The film also opened at the Atlantic Film Festival on September 11, 2008, [32] and had its North American theatrical release on October 3, 2008. [ citation needed] It also premiered in Japan at the Tokyo International Film Festival on October 19, 2008, before releasing theatrically on November 22. [33] [34] Critical reception [ edit ]M-am întrebat de ce a ales autorul să pună dialogurile în text, de ce a renunțat adeseori la semnele de punctuație, de ce alineatele sînt foarte rare... Lectura devine astfel mai dificilă, unii renunță pur și simplu să termine romanul. Bănuiesc că Saramago știa bine asta. Nu este, cred, un simplu procedeu „poetic”, o găselniță grafică, lipsită de sens. Vă amintiți, cred, de poetul e. m. cummings, care a minusculat totul, și versurile, și numele propriu. Siegel, Tatiana (2007-06-12). "3 succumb to 'Blindness' at Focus Int'l". The Hollywood Reporter. The Nielsen Company. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30 . Retrieved 2007-06-18. Anyone who is going to die is already dead and does not know it, That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead, ……. The Nobel Prize for Literature 1998". The Nobel Prize. Nobel Media AB. 8 October 1998 . Retrieved 26 May 2020. National Federation of the Blind Condemns and Deplores the Movie Blindness". National Federation of the Blind. 2008-09-30. Archived from the original on 2008-10-03 . Retrieved 2008-10-01.

Frica orbeşte, spuse tînăra cu ochelari negri, Sînt bune cuvintele, eram orbi în clipa cînd am orbit, frica ne-a orbit, frica ne va ţine orbi...”; Saramago wrote a sequel to Blindness in 2004, titled Seeing ( Ensaio sobre a lucidez, literal English translation Essay on lucidity), which has also been translated into English. The sequel novel takes place in the same country featured in Blindness and features several of the same nameless characters.The city afflicted by the blindness is never named, nor the country specified. Few definite identifiers of culture are given, which contributes an element of timelessness and universality to the novel. However, there are some signs that hint that the country is Saramago's homeland of Portugal: the main character is shown eating chouriço, a spicy sausage, and some dialogue in the original Portuguese employs the familiar "tu" second-person singular verb form (a distinction absent in most of Brazil). The church, with all its saintly images, is likely of the Catholic variety. I thought that the book is a metaphor of the people that are walking through life without thinking about the violence and cruelty that is in front of them, their ignorance of anything that could menace their civilized life. I believe the book brings forward our fear/avoidance to see our mortality and the insignificance of our lives. a b c Schneller, Johanna (2007-08-25). "Julianne Moore sees her way to a little bit of sanity". The Globe and Mail. Toronto: CTVglobemedia . Retrieved 2008-03-11. Daniel Zettel as an onlooker. Zettel has previously acted in many Meirelles films, including the 2002 film City of God. Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.”