O olhar desencantado em ensaio sobre a cegueira de José Saramago

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Adriana Gonçalves da
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4841
• topic: Literatura e sociedade; Cegueira; Desencantamento do mundo; Literature and society; Blindness; Disenchantment of the world; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

Blindness, written by Jose Saramago, has causing many research interests since its publication in 1995. Considering the novel as a socially symbolic narrative, an undeniable characteristic of the book is related to the very unique time in which the story occurs: the end of the millennium. On the eve of the twenty-first century, the society represented by the Portuguese writer has not learned to deal with the remaining problems from the Modern Age. The scientificism inherited from earlier centuries as well as the utopian hope that reason would provide the world with a new meaning, is one of the ways in which the process of disenchantment of the world develops itself in the last centuries. Since we notice that the world is in a heightened stage of this process, possibly without return, we see the novel as a deep Saramago criticism to the social model of capitalism: out of this parameter there is not a possible idea of civilization to the characters and the fear of barbarism practices emerges. Individuals present in Blindness when beset by the white evil do not show humanity and dignity as we see in the current moral social standards. This work aims to analyze, based on the weberian sociology, how the termination of a disenchanted world is constructed in the novel, questioning the possibilities for a re-enchantment through the experience of blindness and inquiring the motivations to the fact that the doctor s wife is the only visionary remaining in a world of blind people.