Reflections on late capitalism in Blindness, by José Saramago: Reflexões acerca do capitalismo tardio em Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira, de José Saramago

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Sandra Aparecida
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Santos, João Carlos Soares dos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Navegações (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/navegacoes/article/view/42854
• topic: Blindness; José Saramago; Capitalism; Cegueira; José Saramago; Capitalismo

Blindness tells the events that unfold during an inexplicable epidemic of blindness that affects the inhabitants of an unidentified town. The narrative follows a group of blind people, led by the doctor’s wife, the only character who can see, who come together after being isolated in a mental institution. The events that afflict the blind, the state’s treatment of the epidemic, the apocalyptic imagery, as well as the narrator’s interventions – which give the novel its essay-like character – contribute to reflections about the industrial paradigm that governs contemporary society’s way of life.