A baroque tale set during the Inquisition in 18th-century Lisbon, it tells of the love between a maimed soldier and a young clairvoyant, and of a renegade priest's heretical dream of flight.

Meirelles explained that the character's glasses and cascading hair gave her a cold appearance, but through her scenes with the orphaned Boy with the Squint, she develops warmth. The film, like the novel, directly addresses sight and point of view and asks you to see things from a different perspective. Like most works by Saramago, Blindness contains many long, breathless passages in which commas take the place of periods, quotation marks, semicolons, and colons.Still a Communist party member, Saramago describes himself as a "hormonal communist - just as there's a hormone that makes my beard grow every day.

The car-thief’s wound is badly infected, and the doctor and his wife beg the soldiers for medicine, but they refuse.Anxiety over the availability of food undermines morale and introduces conflict between the prison's wards, as the soldiers who guard the camp become increasingly hostile. Even after so many factual accounts of mass cruelty, this most sophisticated fiction retains its peculiar power to move and persuade. The story is hardly an escape from the present moment: an infectious and instantaneous blindness spreads across the globe as an overnight pandemic, bringing the world to a fearful halt. Palavras-Chave: Michel de Montaigne, Journal de Voyage, Abstract: Michel de Montaigne's Journal de Voyage en Italie par la Suisse et l'Allemagne en 1580 et 1581, published posthumously in 1774, tends to be held as an ancillary text for interpreting the Essais, published under the author's supervision in 1580.