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Blindness

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Literature Atlas. "Blindness." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/blindness.

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Literature Atlas. (n.d.). Blindness. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/blindness

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@misc{literatureatlas-blindness,
  author = {Literature Atlas},
  title = {Blindness},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/blindness},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, literally Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by Portuguese author Jose Saramago. It centers on an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in a nonspecific city, and follows multiple unnamed characters as they navigate the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel was translated into English by Giovanni Pontiero in 1997. In 1998 Saramago received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and Blindness was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award.

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from 1995 1

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