Blindness (novel)

Blindness
1st edition Cover (Portuguese)
AuthorJosé Saramago
Original titleEnsaio sobre a cegueira
TranslatorGiovanni Pontiero
LanguagePortuguese
GenrePost-apocalyptic
PublisherCaminho
Publication date
1995
Publication placePortugal
Published in English
October 1997
Media typePrint (Hardcover, paperback)
Pages288
ISBN1-86046-297-9
OCLC38225068
869.3/42 21
LC ClassPQ9281.A66 E6813 1997
Followed bySeeing 

Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. It is one of Saramago's most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda. In 1998, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Blindness was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award.[1]

A sequel titled Seeing was published in 2004. Blindness was adapted into a film of the same name in 2008.

  1. ^ "The Nobel Prize for Literature 1998". The Nobel Prize. Nobel Media AB. 8 October 1998. Retrieved 26 May 2020.