Jose Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922 and has been a full-time writer since 1979. His oeuvre embraces plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and ten novels, which have been translated into more than forty languages and have established him as the most influential Portuguese writer of his generation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - not spoiled, simply blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later. The result is worse; eighty-three per cent of the votes are blank. The incumbent government receives eight per cent and the opposition even less. The authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency. Who are the insurgents? Why the desire to destabilise the country? The authorities leap from one possibility to the next, but achieve nothing. The lack of hostility exacerbates things, since how can justice be meted out when not a single law has been broken? To all intents and purposes the administration is blind. Similarities to the plague of blindness that struck the city four years ago become apparent. In his new novel, Jose Saramago has deftly created the politician's ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. "Seeing" explores how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be.
路上读书解读: 究竟什么是失明症,什么又是复明症呢? 如果说失明症指的不仅是所有人的眼睛都瞎了,更是指所有人已经丧失了使用理性的能力,那么,复明症难道就是完全相反的意思,所有人重见光明,恢复人性的智慧和理智,再一次建立文明的秩序吗? 很显然,《复明症漫记》跟我...
评分本来以为一上来就会是前作的后续,继续讲述“医生的妻子”失明后的故事,然而事实证明得了诺奖的作者怎么可能如此小儿科;读到快一半时,我认定这将是部与前作无关的故事,然而之前熟悉的人物转了个弯,猝不及防地登场了,佩服作者的构思。比起前一本《失明症漫记》,即使描述...
评分《失明症漫记》里,白色失明症吞噬一切,所有人都变成盲人,每个人都失去自理能力。然后借助医生妻子——唯一的正常人——的眼睛,我们看到在社会体系完全崩溃、道德法律失去效力的世界里,人们是如何放松自身的道德约束,变成只会想法设法满足兽欲的牲畜。 所幸在最后一章,阴...
评分 评分A true master of literature and an amazing masterpiece!
评分A true master of literature and an amazing masterpiece!
评分A true master of literature and an amazing masterpiece!
评分A true master of literature and an amazing masterpiece!
评分A true master of literature and an amazing masterpiece!
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