Blindness
José Saramago, 1995
A city goes suddenly blind, and ordinary people discover how thin the rules holding them together are. Saramago's unnerving novel asks what remains.
José Saramago
Saramago won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998, three years after Blindness appeared in Portuguese; he had worked as a car mechanic and translator.
Feels like society, dread and morality.
If we weighed every consequence, we would never leave the chair.
If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much talked of immortality. Books by José Saramago
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