6/8/2023 0 Comments Blindness vintage saramago![]() ![]() ![]() Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. ![]() Theme: Existence, Uncertainty, and Autonomy Good, Evil, and Moral Conscience Biological Needs and Human SocietyĪ city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” that spares no one. Setting Place: An unnamed city, primarily in an abandoned mental hospital Major Characters: The doctor (Blindness), The doctor’s wife, The girl with the dark glasses, The first blind man, The first blind man’s wife, The boy with the squint, The old man with the black eye patch, The car thief First Publication: 1995 (English translation: 1997) ![]()
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