[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: Recommended Diversions: "Blindness" by Jose Saramago(book review)
- From: "Gustavo Galindo" <Gustavo.G@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 13:55:00 -0700
Louise,
this book has been available on Bookshare.org for quite a while.
http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=2232
ironically enough, this is the book i had just finished reading when my
position at Bookshare.org became available.
the story is pretty violent, but excellently written.
gustavo
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:48 PM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fw: Recommended Diversions: "Blindness" by
Jose
> Saramago(book review)
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> I'd like to seee this book scanned and submitted to Bookshare.
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> Waynesville Smoky Mountain News, NC
> Wednesday, May 25, 2005
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> Recommended Diversions: "Blindness" by Jose Saramago (book review)
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> By Gary Carden
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> This allegorical novel by a Nobel Prize winner has only become
available
> in
> the United States this year. As the title suggests, the plot deals
with a
> world in which "white blindness" suddenly spreads like a plague.
> Bewildered
> governments herd the blind into camps and within a short time, the
blind -
> although helpless - become the majority. Saramago focuses on a single
camp
> and a woman who can see but pretends to be blind so that she can stay
with
> her husband. Inevitably, the existing social order collapses, power
> struggles emerge, and the blind find themselves dealing with
predictable
> needs: hunger, sex and fear. This novel resonates with themes from
other
> allegorical works - Camus' The Plague, Kafka's The Trial, Golding's
The
> Lord
> of the Flies, etc.
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http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/05_05/05_25_05/art_rec_div.html
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