BRILLIANT PORTUGUESE WRITER SEIZES ON EPIC EXPLORATION OF EPIDEMIC.(Lifestyle)(Review)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: October 17, 1998 | Copyright information

For many years now, Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago has been hammering on the door of the Nobel judges. The sound has grown more insistent lately as five of his works have made their way into English (a paperback of ``Baltasar and Blimunda'' is being reissued this fall, and most of the others are in print). ``Blindness'' may be the long-overdue open sesame.

Like Camus' ``The Plague,'' Saramago's parable deals with the consequences of contagion on a community. The story opens with a nameless man sitting in traffic, waiting for the light to change. Before it does, his field ...

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