![]() ![]() ![]() The blindness has no apparent cause, physical or otherwise-but it quickly reveals itself to be contagious: soon everyone who was in the doctor’s office the man visits is blind, and then it spreads-through the city, through the country, possibly through the world-becoming a pandemic of blindness from which only one woman, the doctor’s wife, is miraculously immune.ĭespite the inherent drama of the story, Blindness seems like a hard one to adapt-not only does it get very, very dark (no pun intended), but the novel is written in a fluid, almost hypnotic style that is untranslatable on screen, but feels inseparable, at least to this reader, from the events it describes. In the opening pages of José Saramago’s 1995 novel Blindness, a man is driving home when he suddenly goes blind. ![]()
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