Blindness

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Sometimes the narrative overlaps so you don't know who said what, this is done is some of the parts of the book where there is a crowd. This is the beginning of what my son labelled the scariest book he ever read, and yet such a perfectly brilliant masterpiece. She is an intelligent woman who full of survival instinct which is quintessential to exist in such mayhem.

And if they did so, then resent those who could see and instead of relying on the few sighted people for help despise them for the obvious power they have. We have had moments where our stomachs rumble or experienced a headache due to a missed meal, but true hunger, not eating for days hunger we can only speculate about what that is like.It could be one of those serendipitous and arbitrary events which happen in life but to find that you are not alone to be 'blessed' with such a travesty could numb your senses and send our entire existence for a toss, all your morals and ethics, essentially everything what life comprises of, may be gaping at you with an unfathomable existential horror. We're going back to being primitive hordes, said the old man with the black eyepatch, with the difference that we are not a few thousand men and women in an immense, unspoiled nature, but thousands of millions in an uprooted, exhausted world, And blind, . The characters are instead referred to by descriptive appellations such as "the doctor's wife", "the car thief", or "the first blind man". It's a white blindness that obliterates all vision immediately and is assumed to be highly contagious. Few definite identifiers of culture are given, which contributes an element of timelessness and universality to the novel.

He takes movement of post-modernism to a different level altogether thereby constructing many long, breathless sentences, some of those may even go for more than a page, in which commas take place of periods, quotation marks, semicolons and colons. This woman is devoted to her husband, so much so, she feigns blindness to be transported to the “holding tank” of the asylum while all others around her are actually afflicted with the condition. One by one, each person the man encounters--the not-so-good Samaritan who drives him home, the man's wife, the ophthalmologist, the patients waiting to see the ophthalmologist--is struck blind. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin.Before we know, we are immersed in the horrifying surreal world of hopelessness, filth, violence, and hate, where the true enemy is not their affliction but people themselves, which we can see through the eyes of the only person who appears immune to blindness.

We failed to put up resistance as we should have done when they first came making demands, Of course, we were afraid and fear isn't always a wise counsellor. Even after so many factual accounts of mass cruelty, this most sophisticated fiction retains its peculiar power to move and persuade.And since disasters never come singly, at that same moment the electricians went blind who were responsible for maintaining the internal power supply and consequently that also of the generator, an old model, not automatic, that had long been awaiting replacement, this resulted, as we said before, in the elevator coming to a halt between the ninth and tenth floors. He was the principal translator into English of the works of Clarice Lispector, and met acclaim for his translation of Lispector's A Hora da Estrela, known in English as The Hour of the Star. However, even as the blind spell breaks, and people are regaining their vision, the world is changed forever.