Vol. 15 (2021): XV International Symposium Contemporary Issues of Literary Studies : Literature and Pandemic. Historical and Thematic Experience
Reflection of Classic „Pandemic“ Texts on Contemporary Literary Process

Jose Saramago’s „Blindness“ as a Prediction of Future

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  • Nona Kupreishvili
Nona Kupreishvili
Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature

Published 2021-12-20

Keywords

  • Commented,
  • Spiritual,
  • Message

Abstract

 

Jose Saramago’s “Blindness” as a prediction of future

1. Jose Saramago is the first Portuguese Nobel prize winner. Literary criticism widely commented to above mentioned fact under that the writer was also mentioned as a great sailor Magellan, who was named as “Magellan of world literature”. Novel “Blindness” was published in 1995 .

2. This blindness being not only physical but spiritual one, enables writer to unequivocally generalize that “world is full of alive blind people”. We read one important message: “let’s us not to be alike people with a good eyesight, who do not see anything!”.

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