A city is struck by an epidemic of white blindness. Todos os nomes is a novel by portuguese author jose saramago. Blindness by jose saramago pdf free download ebook. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read all the names. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards under instructions to shoot. The central registry of births, marriages and deaths is the setting for all the names. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Senhor jose is determined to find out more about a woman he only knows from the birth certificate he discovered at his job as a clerk in the central registry. Among the filecards for the living and the dead, one of an apparently ordinary woman will transform his life. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the 20th century, by nobel prizewinning author jose saramago, blindness has swept the masses with its powerful portrayal of mans worst appetites and weaknesses and mans ultimately exhilarating spirit. All the names by jose saramago and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Fortunately for me, i liked all the names much, much more than that one.
It questions whether one life is more valuable than another, or whether one person can truly know another, in our disconnected modern world of the information age. After decades of doing his work perfectly and invisibly, senhor jose begins to track the lives of famous people using newspapers and, more importantly, the information at the registrars office as sources. Pdf saramagos all the names and the epidemiological dream. These are the questions that saramago explores in all the names. After blindness and all the names, im looking forward to going back and reading some of his older books. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading all the names. But not all the books are this much famous and interesting books. However, it is a fine, powerful parable that reads very well in margaret jull costas translation. Jun 18, 2010 jose saramago, portuguese novelist and man of letters who was awarded the nobel prize for literature in 1998. This novel has saramago writing in a more assured manner.
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Translated from the portuguese by margaret jull costa. Dec 28, 2015 jose saramago 19222010 was the author of many novels, among them blindness, all the names, baltasar and blimunda, and the year of the death of ricardo reis. Jose saramago is one of the most acclaimed writers in the world today. Jose saramago 19222010 was the author of many novels, among them blindness, all the names, baltasar and blimunda, and the year of the death of ricardo reis. Click to read more about all the names by jose saramago. As soon as you cross the threshold, you notice the smell of old paper.
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