Ensayo sobre la lucidez / Seeing (Paperback)

from Trotsky731

Chilling, but brilliant. A modern day 1984. The book is somewhat divided into two parts. The first tells the tale of a rogue capital city of an unnamed country, that decides to cast blank ballots during an election. The government responds in crisis mode and puts the city in a state of siege. The...

from Cygnus555

Another outstanding book by Jose Saramago. I'm slowly working my way through all of his books - his writing style makes it so I can make it through one... but then must stop to catch a breath with other books. Seeing was a bit more whimsical than his others... I found myself smiling and laughing ...

from kirstiecat

This book is brilliant...although it is technically the sequel to Blindness, it doesn't revisit those characters until near the end so it is possible to read this without reading the other, though I would recommend reading Blindness first. This book is not about disease so much as about governmen...

from lkernagh

This novel appeals to me on a number of levels. I tend to enjoy stories that take a swipe -be it comic or menacing - at political institutions and the governments that believe they are in control. In Seeing, the sequel to Saramago's earlier novel Blindness, Saramago present readers with an allego...

from deebee1

This book is a sequel to the more popularly known Blindness. I liked the earlier book of course, but I think Seeing is much more witty and intelligent, and the satire inherent in all Saramago works is brought out fully in this book. The story begins with the citizens of the capital of the same un...