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| Original Title: | Ensaio Sobre a Lucidez |
| ISBN: | 0156032732 (ISBN13: 9780156032735) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Blindness #2 |
| Literary Awards: | Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2007) |
José Saramago
Paperback | Pages: 307 pages Rating: 3.81 | 17437 Users | 1529 Reviews
Present About Books Seeing (Blindness #2)
| Title | : | Seeing (Blindness #2) |
| Author | : | José Saramago |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 307 pages |
| Published | : | April 9th 2007 by Mariner Books (first published March 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. Cultural. Portugal. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Novels. European Literature. Portuguese Literature |
Commentary As Books Seeing (Blindness #2)
On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to go out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o' clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent are blank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency is declared. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? A police superintendent is put on the case. What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinister. A singular novel from the author of Blindness.Rating About Books Seeing (Blindness #2)
Ratings: 3.81 From 17437 Users | 1529 ReviewsPiece About Books Seeing (Blindness #2)
The author of Seeing, Jose Saramago, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. He said at the Nobel Prize Banquet: In this half-century, obviously governments have not morally done for human rights all that they should. The injustices multiply, the inequalities get worse, the ignorance grows, the misery expands. This same schizophrenic humanity that has the capacity to send instruments to a planet to study the composition of its rocks can with indifference note the deaths of millions of peopleAs my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.. WELL, I HATE CATS! AND I DONT LIKE THIS NOVEL AS WELL! I loved José Saramago in Blindness, and I expected I will also love him in this sequel.BUT .The idea is pretty good. But the flow of events was really tedious. I didnt enjoy it at all!AND The ending shocked me! I dont know how to describe this novel. ITS SIMPLY UNPLEASANT!
I read this book shortly after having completed 'Blindness'. 'Seeing' is a sequel to 'Blindness'. At first there appears to be little to explicitly link the two books. This book's premise is a subconscious revolution whereby the inhabitants of a city start to behave in a curiously collective manner - 83% of them cast a blank ballot at a general election. This inevitably creates confusion and panic within the government. Like 'Blindness', part of my pleasure in this book was due to Saramago's
An astonishing political fiction of the 1998 winner of the Nobel literature.It comes to a capital where the people decided to vote "white", more than 80%. What will the government do? We are looking for culprits with spies and informers? Attempting a publicity campaign? And if the army were sent? But vote at its option, is not an inalienable right?It's full of humor and caricatures of politicians and is also full of reflections on democracy, rights and duties as citizens, and even the meaning of
Oh, José Saramago -- I do not know whether to feel more hope or despair. Seeing was slow to get going, in part because, at first, there were really no characters. I suspect this was intentional, as the nameless people of the novel only emerge and become interesting as their consciences awaken and they become more than just the furniture of the political-military bureaucratic complex. About halfway through, the novel picks up and becomes the moving and compelling story of a man who becomes aware
I've read about half of Saramago's books now. This one is the sequel to Blindness, which was by far my least favorite (brutal, mundane, and mostly pointless). I much preferred "Seeing". I would not consider Blindness a prerequisite either. Of course lots of people disagree with me and loved Blindness...I finished this book continually astonished with the author's ability to put words together but still wondering what it was all about. He narrates like an abstract painter or a dancer, ...or a
Oh Jose, I'm disappointed in you. You bit off more than you could chew and knew it. You had grandiose ideas and were on the way to succeeding but got lost along the way. Alas, you still construct beautiful sentences and speak volumes with your words so we will meet again.
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