![]() ![]() and both are very raw and very graphic in their portrayal of life afterward. But both touch on survival after a catastrophic event. The prose has a run-on quality while that of The Road is spartan - so in that regard they are dissimilar. ![]() This may drive some readers crazy, but I felt it totally fit the atmosphere of the book. The prose also uses minimal punctuation and no quotation marks. This book could not remind me much more of The Road, and yet it is different. Saragamo's follows a number of people who band together in an attempt to survive. except instead of blackness, he sees pure snowy whiteness and nothing else.Īs the blindness spreads, we see authorities panic, and then ultimately the city becomes the setting for a complete and catastrophic disaster. It starts off with a single driver who suddenly, while driving, becomes blind. Saramago paints a grim picture of a world where blindness spreads, like a disease, throughout a community. Fans of literary fiction really shouldn't miss this work. ![]()
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