
Little by little, the doctor and the girl with the dark glasses restored their sight. One a pleasant morning, one of the members of her group regained sight. The doctor’s wife took her group to her home. They survived the fire, returned to the city, and sought refuge and food. Only the doctor’s wife sacrificed herself and saved her group. Everyone suffered from inequality, lack of facilities, and injustice. So blindness was like a contagious disease all over the city.Įveryone wished these hardships ended. In such a society, no one performs their duty well. Women were sexually abused and their husbands could not do anything. Some people dismissed to distribute food which made other people share a little or no food. what happened in the hospital?Īt that hospital, they used the smallest materials around them, they minimized their needs. Sometimes they protested for social, political, and economic inequality situation, but they could not dare to tell the government. They were blind people who can see but do not see. But they were facing difficulties Such as pollution, inequality, fire, a shortage of food, and lack of bathrooms. All blind people were entered into a hospital. All of them saw everything white except the doctor’s wife as she did not lose her sight and helped the blind people as a guide.īlindness is a modern morality story. Thirdly, the girl with the dark glasses is also struck with blindness. Secondly, the doctor (Ophthalmologist) got blind. Firstly, a man who was sitting behind the steering wheel suddenly became blind. The story is about a society in which some people encounter difficulties. This is the story of a baffling mass epidemic of blindness. The characters in the novel did not have names. Blindness is a novel written by the Portuguese author, Jose Saramago. Summary of the bookīlindness is a special novel. Some of his works include Land of Sin, Baltasar, and Bilmunda, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, and a Journey to Portugal. In1998, he got the Noble Prize for Literature. About an Authorīlindness is a novel has written by Jose Saramago. I recommend you to read it these days and you will enjoy it. I saw a summary of Blindness in my notebook which I wrote by myself and I think It resembles the current state of the world due to a Corona pandemic.

BLINDNESS JOSE SARAMAGO SUMMARY DRIVER
A driver stalled at a busy intersection suddenly suffers an attack of white. This novel has a moral message for contemporary audiences. The embattled relationships among the people of a city mysteriously struck by an epidemic of blindness form the core of this superb novel by the internationally acclaimed Saramago, the Portugese author of, most recently, The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1997). The story begins when the first blind man loses his vision in his car.

As a matter of fact, it is a social and political novel that stands as a protest voice. Saramago uses blindness as a metaphor for both personal misfortune and social catastrophe. It is translated into Persian by Zohreh Masti. BlindnessJose Saramago completely depend on written information: texting, messaging, media posts - if something is not written online, it’s like it does not exist.

Nowadays ‘Blindness’ novel is very popular among people in Iran.
