The novel concerns ‘the white evil’ a highly contagious pandemic that causes people to go blind and see nothing but whiteness. Well yes apparently since with a mild expletive of amazement I discovered that the Donmar Warehouse were planning to transform the work into a sound installation.
Indeed, early on in March I had found myself thinking of Saramago’s dystopian fable and thinking ‘Oh god, do I have to read it again?’. It may have been written 23 years ago, but few works bar possibly Camus’ The Plague seem more immediately relevant in a world of Covid-19 lockdown. Heard the one about the pandemic and about the bumbling, incompetent governments misguided reaction? Whatever one’s feelings about José Saramago’s dystopian nightmare Blindness, you have to acknowledge its staying power.
Book cover of Blindness by Portuguese author José Saramago.
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