(His novel A Closed Book is about a blind writer).
A blind writer (Lluís Homar) is pulled back into his past, when he was a filmmaker in an ill-fated love affair with an actress played by Penélope Cruz.
So when an interviewee -- an impeccably well-mannered one, at that -- calls you a "blind writer," it comes as a jolt.
The action starts with a blind writer, "Harry Caine" and it's up to the flashbacks to show how he ended up this way, after being a film director.
Solomon quotes the blind writer Deborah Kent, who was dismayed to find that her own mother and her husband blanched at the idea of her giving birth to a blind kid.
A blind writer (Llu?Homar) is pulled back into his past, when he was a filmmaker in an ill-fated love affair with an actress played by Pen?pe Cruz.
Young-chan, the soulful protagonist of the South Korean documentary "Planet of Snail," is a young deaf and blind writer who compares his sense of isolation to that of an astronaut adrift in space.
His other friends included the writers and thinkers he met at Berta Fanta's salon or at the Cafe Arco, and included Albert Einstein, Martin Buber and Oskar Baum, a blind writer to whom Kafka famously bowed when they were first introduced.
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Ever since, when I hear talk of Bloomsday celebrations, that, I am afraid, is the image that springs immediately to mind: an old, blind writer, one of the greatest of his age, sitting alone in a hotel room overlooking an unseen St. Stephen's Green.
