Now You See, Now You Don't From: The Washington Post | Date: October 9, 1998| Author: | Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

BLINDNESS By Jose Saramago Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero Harcourt Brace. 293 pp. $22 A few pages into Jose Saramago's "Blindness," I was reminded of Albert Camus' essay on Franz Kafka. Camus points out that Kafka's characters seem so bizarre precisely because they accept their unusual if not outlandish circumstances as being perfectly ordinary. For instance, in "The Metamorphosis," when Gregor Samsa wakes up and finds that he is an enormous cockroach, he doesn't say, "My God, look at me, look at these plates and brown things on my chest," but, in effect, "How the hell ...

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