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“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.”

Blindness by José Saramago

April 1, 2020 by blauracke Leave a Comment

When one man suddenly goes blind, no one can quite explain what happened. When it spreads to the ophthalmologist who examined him, and then to other people they both were in contact with, it becomes clear that it is a highly infectious disease. As there is neither an explanation nor any treatment available, the afflicted are locked into an abandoned mental hospital where they mostly have to fend for themselves. There are many books in which the breakdown of civilization in difficult circumstances is examined, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: jose saramago

blauracke's CBR12 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: jose saramago ·
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When a lizard appears

The Lizard by Jose Saramago

January 31, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I honestly have no idea what the point of the story, The Lizard was. The art of J. Borges never felt fleshed out and the story presented by Jose Saramago seems to have no point to it. Perhaps it is the way Nick Caistor and Lucia Caistor translated the text and therefore, the original language to English might not flow nicely to my ears. Perhaps it was just something deeper in the story I was missing as I  was too focused on the surface part […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History Tagged With: Caribbean & Latin America, jose saramago, Portugal

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:53 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History · Tags: Caribbean & Latin America, jose saramago, Portugal ·
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The things we do in the shadows

Blindness by Jose Saramago

August 22, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Do you like bleak dystopian novels full of bad things happening to humanity in general and certain characters (usually women) in particular? Is Cormac McCarthy’s The Road your jam?  Then this book might be right up your alley. Set in the present day, we watch as characters named only by descriptors (the doctor, the doctor’s wife, the girl with the dark glasses, the boy with the squint, etc.) are struck down by epidemic of ‘white blindness’.  We start with patient zero, a man who suddenly […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Award Winner, blindness, cbr11bingo, jose saramago

Wanderlustful's CBR11 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Award Winner, blindness, cbr11bingo, jose saramago ·
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Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

July 23, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Death with Interruptions – 4/5 Stars As I have said, I started reading Saramago because of the comments of Ursula K Le Guin in her essay collection Words are My Matter. She wrote beautifully and swimmingly about his work and how much she respected him as a political person and a moral writer. She expressly talks about how he’s not a political writer, which is more or less true, in that he’s not a partisan writer (he’s politically socialist). Anyway, there’s a review blurb on […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: blindness, death with interruptions, jose saramago, the elephant's journey

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:279 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: blindness, death with interruptions, jose saramago, the elephant's journey ·
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