It's a dicey thing to criticize a Nobel Prize winner, but I find myself even more loath to take a position contrary to that of Harold Bloom. Nevertheless, here I go: Portuguese Laureate Jose Saramago's novel Blindness is a flawed work that has its gripping moments and images but that nevertheless falls far short of greatness. Blindness tells the story of a city/country/world whose population is stricken with a contagious form of blindness. The reader follows the first handful of people who lose…
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