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In the first epigraph, the magistrate from J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians is describing his condition following his arrest and fall from grace, and in the second, the blind doctor from José Saramago's novel Blindness is commenting on the state to which he has deteriorated.
As in the allegorical novel Blindness by José Saramago, the villagers of Liven are all disabled – blind, deaf and crippled.
Mr. Nuckel has read his novel "Blindness" three times.
Green wrote his first novel, Blindness (1926), when he was 18.
A passage from José Saramago's novel Blindness, printed white-on-white, was almost impossible to read.
The epigraphs to each of the book's sections are all from the novel "Blindness" by Jose Saramago.
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For example I wrote a novel about blindness called 'Shooting in the Dark'.
Lina Meruane's 'Seeing Red' is a piercing novel of blindness.
This e-book equivalent of a box set, titled "The Collected Novels of Jose Saramago," will be available on Nov. 29, with novels including "Blindness," "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" and "Baltasar and Blimunda," along with an introductory essay by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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