Vision quest

From: The Village Voice | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

lion Ques Blindness

By Jose Saramago

Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero

Harcourt Brace, 294 pp., $22

BY DWIGHT GARNER

In his recent memoir, Planet of the BEnd, the poet Stephen Kuusisto, who was born nearly sightless, is stunned to discover that `weakness and lack of affect are synonyms for the word blind," he writes. "In Roget's Thesaurus, one finds aLso: ignorant, oblivious, obtuse, unaware, blocked, concealed, obstructed, hidden, illiterate, backward, crude, uneducated, and worst of all, unversed." Kuusisto's bold and unsentimental memoir, which explores his desperate ...

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