Blindness
Blindness
ISBN: 9780156007757
出版社: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
出版年: 1999-10
页数: 352
定价: CAD 16.50
装帧: Paperback
原作名: Ensaio sobre a Cegueira
内容简介
Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards. Inside, the criminal element among the blind hold the rest captive: food rations are stolen, women are raped. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers through the barren streets. The developments within this oddly anonymous group -- the first blind man, the old man with the black eye patch, the girl with dark glasses, the boy with no mother, and the dog of tears -- are as uncanny as the surrounding chaos is harrowing.
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A parable of loss and disorientation, of man's worst appetities and hopeless weaknesses, Blindness is one of the most challenging, thought-provoking, and ultimately exhilarating novels published in any language in recent years.
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。