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Key facts
- Author
- José Saramago
- Original title
- Ensaio sobre a cegueira
- Translator
- Giovanni Pontiero
- Language
- Portuguese
- Genre
- Post-apocalyptic
- Publisher
- Caminho
- Publication place
- Portugal
- Published in english
- October 1997
- Media type
- Print ( Hardcover , paperback )
- Isbn
- 1-86046-297-9
- Dewey decimal
- 869.3/42 21
- Library of congress classification span
- PQ9281.A66 E6813 1997
- Followed by
- Seeing
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- José Saramago
- Country of origin
- Portugal
- Followed by
- Seeing
- Image
- Book cover of Ensaio sobre a Cegueira.jpg
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- publication date
- 1995-00-00
- title
- Ensayo sobre a ceguera
- language of work or name
- Portuguese
- form of creative work
- novel
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Encyclopedic overview
Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, lit. Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by Portuguese author José Saramago. It centers on an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in a nonspecific city, and follows multiple unnamed characters as they navigate the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel was translated into English by Giovanni Pontiero in 1997.
In 1998, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Blindness was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blindness” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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