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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0156032732
ISBN-13: 9780156032735
Apr 2007
Publisher: Harcourt
307 pages
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago returns to the unnamed city of his brilliant BLINDESS, and conjures up a surreal and subversive tale of political insubordination. The novel opens on an election day, but no one is showing up at the polls. Then, in a rush, the populace arrives, but more than 70% of the voters turn in blank ballots.
The first half of the novel revolves around the baffled and paranoid government as it grapples with this sudden silent revolution--the government declares a state of emergency, seals off the city, even stages a terrorist attack, hoping to rile the passive resistance. Then, midway through the novel, the action shifts; the government decides that an eye doctor’s wife, the same woman who retained her sight during the ocular plague in Saramago’s previous novel BLINDNESS, must somehow be connected to the mysterious blank ballots. A superintendent and several detectives are put in charge of the investigation, and as SEEING becomes more plot-driven, the absurdist satire gives way to dark revelations and shadowy truths.
Saramago writes with the parabolic starkness of Kafka and Camus, but in the labyrinthine style of Calvino, and Borges. His prose lacks conventional punctuation, his characters have no names, and his sentences often run to pages in length. The result can be frustrating, but readers who acquiesce to his eccentric style open themselves up to a world of insight, tragedy, and blistering wit.
| Size | | Length: | 307 pages | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 10.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
[Jose Saramago] has written a novel that says more about the days we are living in than any book I have read. He writes with wit, with heartbreaking dignity, and with the simplicity of a great artist in full control of his art."
(04/15/2006)
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