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Blindness

Blindness
作者:Jose Saramago
译者:Giovanni Pontiero
出版社:Havill Pr
出版年:1997-09
ISBN:9781860466854
行业:其它
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内容简介

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

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作者简介

若泽•萨拉马戈(José Saramago):

葡萄牙当代最杰出的作家。1922年生于葡萄牙,高中时因家境贫困而辍学,先后从事技工、文员、记者、编辑等多种职业。1979年开始投入文学创作。1982年出版的《修道院纪事》为他赢得国际声誉。此后出版《里斯本之围》《失明症漫记》《复明症漫记》等多部影响深远的小说。1998 年荣获诺贝尔文学奖,是葡萄牙迄今唯一一位获此殊荣的作家。2010年在西班牙兰萨罗特岛去世。

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读书文摘

随着时代的推移,随着社会的进化和基因的置换,我们最后把道德感与血液的颜色和眼泪的咸淡混为一谈,仿佛这还不够,我们还把眼睛变成了朝向灵魂的镜子,结果它往往毫无保留地展示出我们嘴上试图否认的东西。 loc. 210-212

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