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.
谁能想到,萨拉马戈摧毁了他在《失明症漫记》中给予我们的乐观?但读者早就该想到,有人,就有希望;只有政治没有人,就没有希望。《复明症漫记》中,人被杀了,被政治杀了。“发号施令的人不仅不会在荒唐面前止步,还会进一步利用它来麻痹人们的良知,摧毁人们的理智。”一个...
评分作为《失明症漫记》的姊妹篇,在没有读《复明症漫记》之前,我太过于天真的认为两者会有故事上的延续性。由此导致的困惑也一直困扰了前半程的阅读。事实上,两者真的也只有一些情节上的少许交叉,如果想把这作为单独的两本,也并不是不可做到。 《复明症漫记》明显有着强烈的政...
评分面前摆上《复明症漫记》的原书和译稿的时候,我并没有多想便直接投入了工作。《复明症漫记》是我正式参与到编辑工作的第一部小说,而在这之前,自诩文学爱好者的我甚至也只知道萨拉马戈那部著名的《失明症漫记》以及那场总被类比到现实政治和权力腐败的虚构的瘟疫。 在最初惊...
评分路上读书解读: 究竟什么是失明症,什么又是复明症呢? 如果说失明症指的不仅是所有人的眼睛都瞎了,更是指所有人已经丧失了使用理性的能力,那么,复明症难道就是完全相反的意思,所有人重见光明,恢复人性的智慧和理智,再一次建立文明的秩序吗? 很显然,《复明症漫记》跟我...
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!
评分对当代人所理解的民主政治的深刻考问。不可不读。
评分对当代人所理解的民主政治的深刻考问。不可不读。
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