![]() ![]() ![]() Inside the asylum, panic spreads “faster than the legs that carry it”. The doctor and his wife, who miraculously maintains her sight, are sequestered there as well. The group is quarantined in an old asylum by the ministry of health. ![]() He is taken to an ophthalmologist's office where, after walking through a busy waiting room, he leaves the whole clinic, including the doctor, infected. It opens with one man at a traffic stop, his world suddenly enveloped in a milky whiteness. The novel chronicles an unprecedented epidemic of blindness that sweeps across an unnamed country. While words cannot always do justice to the extent of individual suffering from this disease, fiction can sometimes offer a way to process the present moment, and this feels particularly true of Portuguese writer José Saramago's Blindness (1995). Some 6 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the emotional devastation, socioeconomic impacts, and pressures on front-line health-care workers continue to shape our world. ![]()
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