Blindness

Blindness by José Saramago
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a good book to read with someone.  "White blindness" takes over a country (the world?) like a plague.  Every day brings new horrors, and for no one is it more horrible than the one woman who has somehow escaped the malady, leaving her alone to witness the atrocities. I could tell it was an allegory, that the lessons of appreciating what you have, and the danger of turning a "blind eye" were there, but I admit, it would have been nice to bounce ideas off of someone else to get deeper. In the end I did turn to the Internet to help get some more insight, if you will.  It was helpful...like the lack of quotation marks, and the difficulty in trying to figure out who is saying what was deliberate to help the the reader feel the chaos that existed.  Until I realized that, I found it frustrating.  It is definitely a book that gets better the more you think about it.
The message [of today] is that morality is passé, conscience is for wimps, and the single overriding command is ‘Thou shalt not be found out.’” --Joseph Sacks


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