Which book did Jose Saramago win the Nobel Prize for?
Blindness
In 1995, I published the novel Blindness and in 1997 All the Names. In 1995, I was awarded the Camões Prize and in 1998 the Nobel Prize for Literature. José Saramago died on 18 June 2010.
Did Jose Saramago win a Nobel Prize?
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1998 was awarded to José Saramago “who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality.”
Who is the author of blindness?
José Saramago
Blindness/Authors
Was Saramago an atheist?
Saramago was an atheist. The Portuguese government lambasted his 1991 novel O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo (The Gospel according to Jesus Christ) and struck the writer’s name from nominees for the European Literature Prize, saying the atheist work offended Portuguese Catholic convictions.
How does the book Blindness end?
The novel abruptly ends without making clear in what ways people have been transformed by the horrific experience of collective blindness. As I mentioned earlier, the doctor’s wife is the only character who does not go blind. She remains free from infection. This allows her to assist the group of blind people.
Is seeing a sequel to Blindness?
Saramago wrote a sequel to Blindness in 2004, titled Seeing (Ensaio sobre a lucidez, literal English translation Essay on lucidity), which has also been translated into English. The sequel novel takes place in the same country featured in Blindness and features several of the same nameless characters.
Do doctors wives go blind at the end of blindness?
She didn’t, it was just the natural way to end the book. The epidemy is over and now she has to rebuild her life along with everybody else. the last passage clearly confirms that she does not go blind, although she does fear that this might be her turn to lose her sight as everybody else’s epidemic is coming to an end.