Jose Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922 and has been a full-time writer since 1979. His oeuvre embraces plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and ten novels, which have been translated into more than forty languages and have established him as the most influential Portuguese writer of his generation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - not spoiled, simply blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later. The result is worse; eighty-three per cent of the votes are blank. The incumbent government receives eight per cent and the opposition even less. The authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency. Who are the insurgents? Why the desire to destabilise the country? The authorities leap from one possibility to the next, but achieve nothing. The lack of hostility exacerbates things, since how can justice be meted out when not a single law has been broken? To all intents and purposes the administration is blind. Similarities to the plague of blindness that struck the city four years ago become apparent. In his new novel, Jose Saramago has deftly created the politician's ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. "Seeing" explores how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be.
——需要就是法律 ——《复明症漫记》是民主制度下的《一九八四》 《一九八四》是专制制度下的《复明症漫记》 这是一部可以带给人思考的的政治寓言。对于白票运动一直举手无措的政府,说着一个又一个谎言来安抚大众,直到那封举报信的出现,让政府似乎找到了替罪羊——四年前...
评分一部zhengzhi味道很强的长篇小说,作者诺贝尔文学奖获得者????根据大家的评论和评分来看这本书貌似是有很深意味和见解的,无奈我的修行不够,目前还无法好好欣赏。 首先要承认这是某种程度上的奇书,原书只有两种标点,人物也没有名字;几乎不分段如便秘一般的大块大块文字,对...
评分2014年的文学阅读,或许注定离不开一个名字——萨拉马戈,继中信出版社的杂文集《谎言的年代》之后,作家出版社不甘示弱,迅猛推出其最新译作《双生》,而新经典文化也紧随其后,一并推出他的两本代表作《失明症漫记》和《复明症漫记》。事实上,据闻作家出版旗下有萨拉马戈的...
评分 评分对当代人所理解的民主政治的深刻考问。不可不读。
评分A true master of literature and an amazing masterpiece!
评分A true master of literature and an amazing masterpiece!
评分A true master of literature and an amazing masterpiece!
评分A true master of literature and an amazing masterpiece!
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