Book Review: Blindness by José Saramago

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I don't even remember how I got this book, I just suddenly remember me reading it, and the most surprising thing is that I REALLY LOVED IT! I had my doubts, because even that I have another book from Saramago in my "to read list" I know that it's not the kind of genre I usually read, and I'm so pleased about this one.

One of the things that it is important about this text it's its structure, at least in Spanish, everything is writing without pauses or with commas in weird places, with no paragraph divisions, sometimes it even starts to confuse you because for a moment you don't know who's talking. At first I found it annoying, maybe because I didn't know this, but then I realized that it was OK to be written like this because there are spaces with a lot of dialogues and that would've been even worse to see lots of quotation marks (or em dashes in Spanish), these even enhances the desperation of the characters.

The plot it's about an epidemic (and white) blindness that at first affects to a small number of people, which are sent to an asylum in order to contain it. The thing is that you see what would happen to us in a situation like this, we learn here how much people are willing to pay in order to survive, even if it means to become a slave, a murderer, or as weird as it sounds, a mother.