Blindness

Author's name: Jose Saramago Publisher: Al-Jamal Publications for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2018 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: A novel that summarizes many issues in our human societies under the title: "Blindness". A man in it is affected by blindness, but it is a different kind of blindness where the person sees things in white. Soon, the blindness spread to the entire society except for one woman who was not affected for an unknown reason, and she lives with suffering, saying to herself: "How hard it is to be sighted in a blind society." Because she is able to see everything happening of tyranny, theft, looting, and immoral acts committed by others to earn a living, and she sees the tyranny and dictatorship imposed by some, from which many suffer. A remarkable novel that presents the reality our societies live in, but in a symbolic way, symbolizing intellectual blindness, which is ignorance.