Blindness

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aici nimeni nu se mai poate salva, orbire e şi asta, să trăieşti într-o lume unde s-a terminat speranţa”;

M-am întrebat de ce a ales autorul să pună dialogurile în text, de ce a renunțat adeseori la semnele de punctuație, de ce alineatele sînt foarte rare... Lectura devine astfel mai dificilă, unii renunță pur și simplu să termine romanul. Bănuiesc că Saramago știa bine asta. Nu este, cred, un simplu procedeu „poetic”, o găselniță grafică, lipsită de sens. Vă amintiți, cred, de poetul e. m. cummings, care a minusculat totul, și versurile, și numele propriu. This fiction's strangeness must accentuate by the Portuguese writer's particular syntax in which the comma is queen. As the devil himself paws at the doctor's wife with his cloven hooves, wanting to do great harm to her, he concludes, “This one is on the mature side, but could turn out to be quite a woman.” Eberstadt, Fernanda (2007-08-26). "The Unexpected Fantasist". The New York Times Magazine. The New York Times Company. After the car-thief goes blind while trying to escape with the first blind man’s stolen car, this police officer finds him and helps guide him home—but he never realizes that the thief committed…The old woman lives in the apartment below the girl with the dark glasses. After the hospital burns down and the blind inmates escape, the group led by the doctor’s wife decides to visit…

Saramago was born in 1922 into a peasant family in Azinhaga, a village in Ribatejo, northeast of Lisbon. When he was two, they moved to the capital, where his father José, an artilleryman in the first world war, found a job as a traffic policeman and his mother worked as a domestic cleaner. After the 1926 coup d'etat overthrew the republic, António de Salazar rose to power with his fascist militias and PIDE secret police. Small Memories, Saramago's memoir which is published in Britain next year, describes his family's sordid living conditions in Lisbon and hints at a coercive submission within the household to the fascist slogan of "God, Fatherland, Family". Shortly before his death, Saramago gave German composer Anno Schreier the rights to compose an opera based on the novel. The libretto is written in German by Kerstin Maria Pöhler. Like the German translation of the novel, the opera's title is "Die Stadt der Blinden". It saw its first performance on November 12, 2011 at the Zurich Opera House. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and their procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. The cast and crew included 700 extras who had to be trained to simulate blindness. Actor Christian Duurvoort from Meirelles' City of God led a series of workshops to coach the cast members. Duurvoort had researched the mannerisms of blind people to understand how they perceive the world and how they make their way through space. Duurvoort not only taught the extras mannerisms, but also to convey the emotional and psychological states of blind people. [9] One technique was reacting to others as a blind person, whose reactions are usually different from those of a sighted person. Meirelles described, "When you're talking to someone, you see a reaction. When you're blind, the response is much flatter. What's the point [in reacting]?" [23] Filmmaking style [ edit ] Director Fernando Meirelles alludes to Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1568 painting The Parable of the Blind in the film Blindness. Daniel Zettel as an onlooker. Zettel has previously acted in many Meirelles films, including the 2002 film City of God.Abeel, Erica (2008-05-15). "Cannes 08: Fernando Meirelles on "Blindness" ". Independent Film Channel. Rainbow Media. Archived from the original on 2008-09-05 . Retrieved 2008-07-25. Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three or four that suddenly come out, simple in themselves, a personal pronoun, an adverb, an adjective, we have the excitement of seeing them coming irresistibly to the surface through the skin and the eyes and upsetting the composure of our feelings, sometimes the nerves that can not bear it any longer, they put up with a great deal, they put up with everything, it was as if they were wearing armor, we might say.” The most important among nations of the last century, he in his sixties then came to prominence with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages. Walter Mitty has nothing on Raimundo Silva, the middle-aged bachelor and proofreader in a contemporary Portuguese publishing house who's the protagonist of Saramago's dazzling postmodernist novel. Continue reading » Ebert, Roger (2008-10-02). "Blindness review". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 2010-01-07 . Retrieved 2010-07-13.