Ensayo sobre la ceguera

A man stopped at a red light suddenly goes blind. It is the first case of a "white blindness" that spreads rapidly. Quarantined or lost in the city, the blind will have to face what is most primitive in human nature: the will to survive at any cost. Essay on blindness is the fiction of an author who alerts us to "the responsibility of having eyes when others lost them." José Saramago draws in this book a terrifying and moving image of the times we are living. In such a world, is there any hope? The reader will know a unique imaginative experience. At a point where literature and wisdom intersect, José Saramago forces us to stop, close our eyes and see. Recovering lucidity and rescuing affection are two fundamental proposals of a novel that is also a reflection on the ethics of love and solidarity.