![]() ![]() Jose Saramago presents us with exactly such a problematic, yet his masterfulĪnalysis deals not only with the physical aspects of change and how his characters deal with them, but he inters into the psychological realm and astounds us with his insights and brilliance.Ī man is sitting at a traffic light one day waiting for the light to turn green and It was much more than I could do to even anticipate and manage the physical problems of change and how to deal with them. In my day-dreaming imaginings I never went so far as to evenĭare to consider the inner changes in my person or the other survivors around me. ![]() The problems one runs into even in such a game of imagination is to be consistent and being able to step far enough away to see what it is that really changes. How are we to imagine a world in which some central part of our meaning system suddenly disappears? I've played with the idea in thinking about having survivedĪn atomic war which destroyed most humans, and all the basic infrastructures of everyday life. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero from the 1995 Ensaio sombre a Cegueira.Īlso appended remarks from George Snedeker ![]()
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