Blindness - Jose Saramago

The novel talks about a mysterious epidemic that afflicts a city, where the people of this city suddenly become blind, which creates a wave of panic and chaos that leads to the intervention of the army in order to control the situation, but the situation becomes more tragic when the army abandons the helpless and weak crowds, which leads to To gang control over the remaining food and medicine. People start fighting among themselves. The story also sheds light on the human side represented by the doctor, his wife and his family, who remained united until the disease suddenly disappeared, as it appeared. The novel talks about intellectual blindness, where the doctor's wife said at the end of the novel, "I do not think that we are blind, but rather I think that we are blind people who see. Blind people can see, but they do not see," also indicating that human morals and human principles are fragile in the face of human need.

Pages: 416