A review by westonculture
Blindness by José Saramago

4.0

I'm not sure I can say I enjoyed this - I found even more viscerally filthy than Charlotte Wood's The Natural Way of Things and as unsettling as Cormac McCarthy's The Road - but it certainly made me see the world differently. (Sorry) I really enjoyed it as a thought experiment - how would society disintegrate if we all lost our sight? - and there is so much in it that is ripe for book club discussion. But the prose - urgh. I really laboured to continue reading at times. Sometimes the stream of consciousness style worked - especially in creating the sense of confusion of the newly-blind - but other times i found myself skim reading and wishing he'd just get on with the story. Definitely a book that will stay with me - and perhaps one that I will appreciate more with time.