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发表于2024-11-24
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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.
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.
對當代人所理解的民主政治的深刻考問。不可不讀。
評分A true master of literature and an amazing masterpiece!
評分對當代人所理解的民主政治的深刻考問。不可不讀。
評分對當代人所理解的民主政治的深刻考問。不可不讀。
評分A true master of literature and an amazing masterpiece!
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評分作为«失明症漫记»的续篇,«复明症漫记»展现了另一个荒诞而恐怖的故事,在政客的眼中,宪法赋予民众空白选票的权力等于阴谋,等于对政权的颠覆,民主的内容只能由政客们来解释,而人民实际的民主权力取决于政客们的定义。萨拉马戈再一次以幽默犀利的笔调,对政府的...
評分Seeing pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024