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Blindness

Name: Blindness
Author: José Saramago

1995 novel by José Saramago

Written workliterary workQ826428

Author: José Saramago
Released: 1995
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-26
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Language: Portuguese
Genre: social science fiction
, science fiction
, post-apocalyptic fiction
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Follows: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Followed by: Seeing
Awards: Premio Arcebispo Xoán de San Clemente de novela estranxeira(1998)

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Blindness is a 1995 novel by Portuguese author José Saramago. It centers on an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in a nonspecific city, and follows multiple unnamed characters as they navigate the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel was translated into English by Giovanni Pontiero in 1997.

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Blindness2008 · 2008 film directed by Fernando Meirelles

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Title: Ensayo sobre a ceguera
Country of origin: Portugal
Form of creative work: novel
Has version, edition or translation: Q115794826
Q115794837
Blindness
Translator: Giovanni Pontiero
Derivative work: Blindness

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