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基本信息·出版社：Harvest Books
·页码：352 页
·出版日期：1999年10月
·ISBN：0156007754
·International Standard Book Number：0156007754
·条形码：9780156007757
·EAN：9780156007757
·版本：1
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Harvest Book
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A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.
作者简介 Jos Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922. His novels have been published in dozens of languages around the world. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
媒体推荐 "Blindness, like all of Saramago's work is rewarding for being challenging in narrative technique (artfully translated by longtime collaborator Giovanni Pontiero, who died putting on the finishing touches). Saramago switches tenses and points of view, his grammar is idiosyncratic, he frequently makes authorial asides, and he's partial to page-long sentences encompassing various perspectives and time frames. "But he's so dexterous in his literary machinations that the pieces come together into an existential jigsaw puzzle. "Saramago isn't didactic...He's humane. For better and for worse, duress is a powerful motivator, and generosity and altruism are 'the two best traits in human nature,' though selfishness and cruelty rear themselves nearly as often. Fellow-feeling, most of all, outlasts chaos and degradation, the arbitrary exigencies of existence...."Abounding in the perseverance and hope (and absurdity and horror) of everyday lives, Blindness is of the ages: profound by being elemental. It's a major contribution to Saramago's oeuvre. May he live to 100. He has more books to write." --
The Houston Chronicle, November 22, 1998<br /><br />
Blindness is the darkest and most concentrated of Saramago's books. With a grim, sometimes monotonously repetitive accumulation of detail, he constructs what in some respects could be a circle of Dantean hell.... --
The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Richard Eder<br /><br />At the beginning of Blindness the reader is tempted to search for and tease out the exact implications of a loss of sight, to understand precisely what sort of meanings Saramago's white blindness suggests. The reader considers, mulls over, and discards a number of ideas: the book is a futuristic parable about AIDS or some other infectious disease; it presents a meditation on the contagious nature of ignorance ('this must be the most logical illness in the world, the eye that is blind transmits the blindness to the eye that sees'); or it depicts a socio-political nightmare, the blind leading the blind being the surest path to mayhem...[yet]...Blindness resists single-minded interpretations. This is a brilliant exploration of the human conscience, offered in poetic and revelatory language. --
Hungry Mind Review, Winter 1998-1999<br /><br />The prose of
Blindness is crystalline in the English translation by the late Giovanni Pontiero, and readers can easily catch its ironies, lyricism, and wry humor. In certain respects, though, the style proves daunting ... but it means that like all books of real stature,
Blindness requires undiluted time and attention.... a shattering work by a literary master. --
The Boston Globe, Robert Taylor<br /><br />There is no cynicism and there are no conclusions, just a clear-eyed and compassionate acknowledgment of things as they are, a quality that can only honestly be termed wisdom. --
The New York Times Book Review, Andrew Miller<DIV><DIV>"This is a shattering work by a literary master." The Boston Globe
"This is an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horrors of the century." The Washington Post
"Symphonic . . . [There is] a clear-eyed and compassionate acknowledgment of things as they are, a quality that can only honestly be termed wisdom. We should be grateful when it is handed to us in such generous measure." The New York Times Book Review
</DIV> --Boston globe
编辑推荐 "This is a shattering work by a literary master."—The Boston Globe
"This is an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horrors of the century."—The Washington Post
"Symphonic . . . [There is] a clear-eyed and compassionate acknowledgment of things as they are, a quality that can only honestly be termed wisdom. We should be grateful when it is handed to us in such generous measure."—The New York Times Book Review
