The ophthalmologist's spouse, "the doctor's wife," is inexplicably immune to the blindness. The novel follows the misfortune of a handful of unnamed characters who are among the first to be stricken with blindness, including an ophthalmologist, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance. Blindness was adapted into a film of the same name in 2008.īlindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows.
Ī sequel titled Seeing was published in 2004. In 1998, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Blindness was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award. It is one of Saramago's most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda.
Blindness ( Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago.
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