Blindness #2

Ensayo sobre la lucidez

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Durante las elecciones municipales de una ciudad sin nombre, la mayoría de sus habitantes decide individualmente ejercer su derecho al voto de una manera inesperada. El gobierno teme que ese gesto revolucionario, capaz de socavar los cimientos de una democracia degenerada, sea producto de una conjura anarquista internacional o de grupos extremistas desconocidos. Las cloacas del poder se ponen en marcha: los culpables tienen que ser eliminados. Y si no se hallan, se inventan.

Los protagonistas de esta novela, un inspector de policía y la mujer que conservó la vista en la epidemia de luz blanca de "Ensayo sobre la Ceguera", dan muestras de la altura moral que los ciudadanos anónimos pueden alcanzar cuando deciden ejercer la libertad.

Saramago, un escritor que se ha convertido en la conciencia lúcida de una época cegada por los mecanismos del poder, lanza una llamada de alerta: «Puede suceder que un día tengamos que preguntarnos Quién ha firmado esto por mí». Ese día puede ser hoy.

464 pages, Paperback

First published March 1,2004

Series

This edition

Format
464 pages, Paperback
Published
January 1, 2005 by Punto de Lectura
ISBN
9788466314749
ASIN
8466314741
Language
Spanish; Castilian

About the author

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José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which have been seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today."

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April 16,2025
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Ensayo sobre la lucidez = Seeing (Blindness #2), José Saramago

Seeing is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago. It was published in Portuguese in 2004, and it is a sequel to one of his most famous works, Blindness.

Seeing is set in the same unnamed country featured in Blindness. The story begins with a parliamentary election, in which the majority (83%) of the populace cast blank ballots.

The first half of the story focuses on the struggles of the government and its various nameless members as they try to simultaneously understand and destroy the amorphous non-movement of blank-voters. Some of the characters from Blindness appear in the second half of the novel, including 'the doctor' and 'the doctor's wife', and the 'dog of tears' now with the name, Constant.

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و هشتم ماه دسامبر سال 2006میلادی

عنوان: بینایی؛ نویسنده: خوزه (ژوزه) ساراماگو؛ مترجم: کیومرث پارسای؛ تهران، شیرین، 1385، در 281ص، شابک 9645564786؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندکان پرتغال - سده 20م

مترجم: حبیب گوهری راد؛ بهاره پاریاب؛ تهران، رادمهر، نکوراد، 1387، در 291ص، شابک 9789648673623؛

مترجم: عبدالرضا روزخوش؛ تهران، روزگار، 1388، در 328ص، شابک 9789643741907؛

مترجم: علیرضا شاهری؛ تهران، مجید، 1392، در 296ص، شابک 9789644530920؛

مترجم: محمد اکبری؛ تهران، شبگون، 1393، در 432ص، شابک 9786009454501؛

روز رای­ گیری، هیچ­کس در پایتخت، به حوزه ­های رای نمی­رود، و اینکار دل نگرانی دولت را، سبب می­شود؛ در ساعت چهار پس از نیمروز، ناگهان همه می­خواهند در حوزه­ ها باشند؛ کسی برای این رخداد برهانی ندارد؛ خیال دولت راحت می­شود، ولی پس از شمارش آراء، هفتاد درصد رای­ها را سفید مییابند، انتخابات دوباره برگزار می­شود؛ در نوبت دوم، هشتاد درصد از آراء سفید است؛ دولت ناراحت است و این امر را توهینی به دموکراسی می­داند، هرچند کسانی عنوان می­کنند، که رای سفید نیز حق قانونی مردمان است، و نباید با آن­ها برخورد شود؛ بین مردم و دولت برخورد پیش می­آید، و مردمان دست به راه­پیمایی سکوت می­زنند و ....؛ شهر همان شهری­ست که رویداد «کوری» در آن رخ داده بود

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 28/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 28/06/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
April 16,2025
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José Saramago’dan okuduğum 3. kitap ve tüm okuduklarım da çok etkileyiciydi. Görmek kitabını okumadan önce mutlaka Körlük kitabını okumuş olmanız gerekiyor. Çünkü büyük bir bölümünde orada geçen olaylarla ve karakterlerle bağlantısı var.
Beyaz oy pusulası salgını var bu kez de. Yine Saramago iktidarı, yöneticileri, halkı, emniyet teşkilatını bir ülke içinde gerçekleşen olağandışı bir durumda ayrıntılı bir kurguyla karşımıza çıkarıyor. Bilmek görmek demektir cümlesi kitabı bitirdiğinizde çok daha anlamlı olacak sizin için. Distopya diyemiyorum çünkü maalesef ülkemizde de çok benzer olayları yaşıyoruz, şahit oluyoruz. Mutlaka okuyun derim
April 16,2025
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Παρά τη χαζομάρα μου να ξεκινήσω από το Περί Φωτισεως και όχι από το Περί τυφλότητος, με αποτέλεσμα να φάω spoilers, δεν μπορώ να μην θαυμάσω την ζοφερή φαντασία του Σαραμαγκου. Τι κι αν είναι απαισιόδοξος; Αγαπώ τη φαντασία και τη γραφή του!!!!!
April 16,2025
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*3.5*
Το περί τυφλότητας μου άρεσε περισσότερο η αλήθεια, αυτό που με κούρασε εδώ ήταν οι πολλές περιγραφές, σε σημείο που πολλές φορές διάβαζα και έβλεπα μπλα μπλα μπλα!
Ενώ το θέμα είχε ενδιαφέρον στο σύνολο το βιβλίο που άφησε μέτριες εντυπώσεις!
April 16,2025
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Seeing is believing…

The last time I read Blindness and then Seeing, I made the mistake of reading the second volume right after the first. The merciless vehemence of Blindness had too strong a resonance and made me literally blind for the underhanded elegance and wit of Seeing.

I avoided this mistake this time and let some months pass between the two books and I have to say that on this new visit to the unnamed country, where the people have no names, where the spoken word merges with the text and where no paragraph marks give the fevered eye of the reader a rest, I probably liked the second volume even better than the first.

Imagine there’s an election and no one’s going to vote.

That’s the premise. In a local election in the capital, over three-quarters of voters turn in a blank, i.e. white, ballot. Along the lines of the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last, many disenchanted with politics seem to have simply had enough and therefore refused to vote for any of the three parties (The Right, The Left, The Centre). The government is at a loss. They interpret the election results as an act of revolt, suspect a conspiracy, speak of torpedoing the democratic order and react with partly grotesque and absurd measures. Although every single voter has the legal right not to vote the People in Power are clearly not willing to rectify the obvious loss of confidence by voters.

Exaggerations are good illustrations!

The characters in this book are heavily overdrawn. Almost all politicians and other state officials are corrupt to the core, from the smallest election officer to various ministers to the head of state and then down again to the military, police and secret services. Almost nobody tries to solve the real problems, but is kowtowing to superiors and dishing it out to subordinates. Those are cardboard characters, on the edge of caricatures, stereotypical to the n-th degree. But under Saramago’s magical pen, a first-rate political satire is created, where you just can’t help but love it & laugh about it and say: Yes, it’s the same in my country, in my district or city.

The end of the world as we know it‽

Saramago himself was a convinced and unorthodox leftist all his life, but this can only be felt to a very limited extent when reading, and in any case, his target is not a particular political camp. He shows here in a skilful way and as a cautionary example how a somewhat functioning society can collapse in the event of an unforeseen danger. In the first volume it is the white blindness that suddenly overcomes the people as a contagious pandemic and brings civilisation to the brink of destruction. In Seeing it is the people themselves who almost cause the collapse of democracy, because the politicians are too corrupt and paranoid to approach their voters.

Any similarities to today’s pandemics, unrest, corrupt systems and possible consequences to societies are, as always, purely coincidental.


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April 16,2025
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کتاب های ژوزه ساراماگو خلاقیتی دارند که نفس آدم رو بند میاره . اگه کتاب کوری ساراماگو رو خونده باشین ( که پیشنهاد می کنم حتما قبل از خوندن این کتاب اونو بخونین ) باز هم توی این کتاب منتظر غافلگیری هستین . منتظرین تا نویسنده برگ برنده شو رو کنه . منتظرین تا باز هم یه اتفاق عجیب بیفته که هیچ وقت در هیچ کجای دنیا نیفتاده . کتاب از روز رای گیری شروع می شه . اولاش یه ذره آدم حوصله اش سر می ره . هی حس می کنه خب بعد . خب پس ک�� جادوی ساراماگو . ولی دیگه از اواسط کتاب دیوانه وار می بلعین صفحه ها . خیلی کتاب خوبیه . برای کتاب خون کردن کتاب به درد بخوریه . و برای اونایی که اهل کتاب هستن یک کتاب رویایی . البته بازم تاکید می کنم که اول کوری رو بخونین .
April 16,2025
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Quattro anni dopo l’epidemia di cecità che colpì la città, accade che, il giorno delle elezioni, l’83% degli votanti compie un atto sovversivo scegliendo scheda bianca. Cecità? No, ci hanno visto benissimo.
Ma anche il Potere ci vede benissimo, e non vuole certo che vengano messi in pericolo il sistema democratico e la stabilità del governo.
Bisogna arrivare alla testa della maledetta tenia che ha cospirato contro il governo, trascinarla alla luce e infliggerle il castigo che merita. Occorre ristabilire l’ordine e riportare alla ragione.
C’è sempre qualcuno da accusare. Un colpevole ci deve essere. Ci sarà. Perché sarebbe davvero un fallimento dire che un accusato è innocente se tutto è concertato per fare di un innocente un colpevole.
Un’analisi lucida e feroce su quanto il Potere, privo di scrupoli e morale, possa fare pur di annientare chi osa dissentire, chi osa ribellarsi, chi osa disobbedire o dire “No”.
Risuonano le parole del commissario: “Ho imparato in questo mestiere che chi comanda non solo non si ferma davanti a ciò che noi definiamo assurdità, ma se ne serve per intorpidire le coscienze e annullare la ragione”.
Fogli scendono volteggiando nell’aria, preludio all’amarezza che verrà.

Lo so, José, che non c’è peggior cieco di chi non vuol vedere. Però… Ci sono rimasta male. Tanto.

P.S. Preferibile leggerlo dopo “Cecità”, per i riferimenti alla vicenda e per i protagonisti che vengono qui riproposti.
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