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Title	:	Seeing (Blindness #2)
Author	:	José Saramago
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 307 pages
Published	:	April 9th 2007 by Mariner Books (first published March 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Cultural. Portugal. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Novels. European Literature. Portuguese Literature

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On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to go out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. 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. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? 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.

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Original Title:	Ensaio Sobre a Lucidez
ISBN:	0156032732 (ISBN13: 9780156032735)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Blindness #2
Literary Awards:	Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2007)

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The author of Seeing, Jose Saramago, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. He said at the Nobel Prize Banquet: In this half-century, obviously governments have not morally done for human rights all that they should. The injustices multiply, the inequalities get worse, the ignorance grows, the misery expands. This same schizophrenic humanity that has the capacity to send instruments to a planet to study the composition of its rocks can with indifference note the deaths of millions of people

It is the wet dream of every anarchist: a society without government, without coercion and repression, where everything runs by itself, where everyone knows his place and does his duty. In this book Saramago outlines such a situation in an unnamed capital. The city is completely abandoned by the government, in a panic reaction because in two successive elections the citizens had voted blank. The focus is not so much on the anarchist virtues, but on the cramped and especially cynical way in which

Oh Jose, I'm disappointed in you. You bit off more than you could chew and knew it. You had grandiose ideas and were on the way to succeeding but got lost along the way. Alas, you still construct beautiful sentences and speak volumes with your words so we will meet again.

I chose José Saramago's Seeing as an October read because Brazil held Presidential Elections on October 5th (1st round) and October 26th (2nd round, since no candidate received more than 50% of the valid votes the first time). Brazilian voting system is similar to that of the book's unnamed place in that it is compulsory. We've had the closest race ever, with elected President winning by 51.6% against second place with 48.4%.The book's story begins precisely on Election Day. Only the race wasn't

I chose José Saramago's Seeing as an October read because Brazil held Presidential Elections on October 5th (1st round) and October 26th (2nd round, since no candidate received more than 50% of the valid votes the first time). Brazilian voting system is similar to that of the book's unnamed place in that it is compulsory. We've had the closest race ever, with elected President winning by 51.6% against second place with 48.4%.The book's story begins precisely on Election Day. Only the race wasn't

An astonishing political fiction of the 1998 winner of the Nobel literature.It comes to a capital where the people decided to vote "white", more than 80%. What will the government do? We are looking for culprits with spies and informers? Attempting a publicity campaign? And if the army were sent? But vote at its option, is not an inalienable right?It's full of humor and caricatures of politicians and is also full of reflections on democracy, rights and duties as citizens, and even the meaning of

Like Blindness, Seeing is an exploration of a 'what if' scenario. For an unstated reason, 83% of the population casts blank votes in national elections, and continues to do so in subsequent 'runoff' elections. This causes a flurry of activity by the government (hinted to be the author's home country, Portugal) which becomes increasing nefarious and dark. The capital is put under siege by its own government, and when this fails to warrant a response from the docile populace, the government