Jose Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922 and has been a full-time writer since 1979. His oeuvre embraces plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and ten novels, which have been translated into more than forty languages and have established him as the most influential Portuguese writer of his generation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - not spoiled, simply blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later. The result is worse; eighty-three per cent of the votes are blank. The incumbent government receives eight per cent and the opposition even less. The authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency. Who are the insurgents? Why the desire to destabilise the country? The authorities leap from one possibility to the next, but achieve nothing. The lack of hostility exacerbates things, since how can justice be meted out when not a single law has been broken? To all intents and purposes the administration is blind. Similarities to the plague of blindness that struck the city four years ago become apparent. In his new novel, Jose Saramago has deftly created the politician's ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. "Seeing" explores how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be.
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作為«失明癥漫記»的續篇,«復明癥漫記»展現瞭另一個荒誕而恐怖的故事,在政客的眼中,憲法賦予民眾空白選票的權力等於陰謀,等於對政權的顛覆,民主的內容隻能由政客們來解釋,而人民實際的民主權力取決於政客們的定義。薩拉馬戈再一次以幽默犀利的筆調,對政府的...
評分1995年薩拉馬戈齣版《失明癥漫記》(國內僅有2002年範維信譯本),這部篇幅不長的小說堪稱現代小說經典之一,足以使這位葡萄牙作傢邁入世界頂級大師的行列。2004年,作為《失明癥漫記》(Blindness)續集(更像是姊妹篇)的《復明癥漫記》(Seeing)齣版,中文版本仍然由範維信...
評分 評分葡萄牙作傢若澤·薩拉馬戈(José Saramago,1922.11.16-2010.6.18),曾憑藉《失明癥漫記》(又名《盲目》)獲得諾貝爾文學奬。如今麵世的中譯本《復明癥漫記》(以下簡稱《復明癥》)被坊間稱為前者的姊妹篇。 閱讀《復明癥》的過程是一個奇特的體驗之旅。薩拉馬戈慣於使用...
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對當代人所理解的民主政治的深刻考問。不可不讀。
評分對當代人所理解的民主政治的深刻考問。不可不讀。
評分A true master of literature and an amazing masterpiece!
評分對當代人所理解的民主政治的深刻考問。不可不讀。
評分對當代人所理解的民主政治的深刻考問。不可不讀。
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