Blindness.

SARAMAGO, Jose.

Item Number: 146093

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed and dated by Jose Saramago on the title page. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine Guerguerian. Uncommon signed.

Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the greatest living novelist" and considers him to be "a permanent part of the Western canon (Evans, 2002). Blindness is "[a]bounding in the perseverance and hope (and absurdity and horror) of everyday lives, Blindness is of the ages: profound by being elemental. It's a major contribution to Saramago's oeuvre. May he live to 100. He has more books to write." (The Houston Chronicle). "Blindness is the darkest and most concentrated of Saramago's books. With a grim, sometimes monotonously repetitive accumulation of detail, he constructs what in some respects could be a circle of Dantean hell...." (Los Angeles Times Sunday). Blindness was adapted into film and was directed by Fernando Meirelles and starred Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo.