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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 869.342
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Harcourt
Manufacturer: Harcourt
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: April 10, 2006
Publisher: Harcourt
Studio: Harcourt
Sales Rank: 78414
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On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. What's going on? Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear.
But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent are blank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency is declared. The president proposes that a wall be built around the city to contain the revolution. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that had hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? Is she the organizer of a conspiracy against the state? A police superintendent is put on the case.
What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinister. A singular novel from the author of Blindness.
(02/01/2006)
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I guess I was looking for a sequel to Blindness and this book is defintely not a sequel to Blindness. Book could have been good, but after reading first 40 - 50 pages, I could not bring myself to devoting more time to finish this book.
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For those who have read Blindness, this book is less a sequel than a haunting extension of the concept of human blindness, all the more provocative since the literal blindness is over. This time, it is not the populace, but the government which tries to keep its citizens blind, but the government itself is blind.
The first half of this novel is grueling, nerve-wracking as it focuses on machiavellian politics, the second half more personal and fluid as we follow one police superintendent ... Read More
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In Saramago's normal humorous manner, he again takes on the political structure of Portugal. His style cuts with the ease of a razor blade, while easing the pain with his wit. The characters are stereotypes that bring to mind people you have met (think Dilbert). You are only given enough about the characters for you to mentally "slot" them. The meat of the book is the underlying attitudes of the "government" vs. the "people".
With Saramago as with all politics the "story" is never resolved. ... Read More
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The premise is interesting and there is meat to the story: the voters in the capital city decide to cast blank ballots and the democratic government panics. I won't divulge any more because it builds up fairly logically from there but I have an important quibble about the style: the absence of dialogue breaks and proper sentences (everything is a long paragraph, comma after comma, dialogue mixed with description, he said, she said, yes that's true - that kind of stuff) really bothers me. I couldn't see a ... Read More
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It's amazing to me that Jose Saramago is producing incredibly thought provoking literature at an age when most writers have long since written their best works. Seeing is another example of Saramago's penchant for creating such literature. Among the themes that he explores in Seeing are:
- If democracy is a form of government that truly represents "the will of the people", what happens when "none of the above" gets the most votes?
- Does a government need to create a plausible ... Read More
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