Blindness

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Only one among them can see, a woman as unnamed as anyone else in the story, but we come to know her as “the doctor's wife. That’s fine enough, but he chooses not to use periods either, that makes almost every sentence, whether it is conversation or not, a long-ass run-on, there is no reason for it, it is not like the final chapter of Ulysses, the whole thing just pissed me off and made me hate reading, good books don’t do that. I lay there in various stages of disbelief and reassurances until a sliver of light announced the dawn and my eyes, my beautiful eyes, luxuriated in those first rays of a new day.

There is only one ‘real’ blind person, someone who was already blind even before the pandemic, but he is one of the bad guys. It's written in huge blocks of text with little punctuation, no quotation marks, and many run-on sentences. There are lots of great themes in the novel, exploring the human condition and how we fail ourselves; and yet, eventually overcome the most severe circumstances.The disease had no compassion or any sense of a person’s economic situation, rich, poor, young and old all died.

This charming tale of an elephant given by the 16th-century Portuguese king João III to the Archduke of Austria has much to recommend it, despite its being a minor work from the late Nobel laureate. None of the characters are given names so its the 'doctors wife' or 'girl with dark glasses' as names cease to matter to the blind. fond, nici n-o poți citi altfel: nu ai cum sări peste paragrafe și descrieri, fiindcă nu există paragrafe și descrieri (în număr prea mare).One by one, each person the man encounters--the not-so-good Samaritan who drives him home, the man's wife, the ophthalmologist, the patients waiting to see the ophthalmologist--is struck blind.