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Radio Liberty's Books podcast under the rubric "Norwegian Book Club" presents a conversation about the magnum opus of Blindness by the great Portuguese writer, novelist, poet, dramatist, screenwriter, literary critic, chronicler, essayist and blogger, Nobel laureate José Saramago. about. A man went blind in some N city. He became blind while sitting behind the wheel and driving the car. He became blind, although he had 100% vision a minute ago. A pandemic of blindness follows. Everyone goes blind. This is an old way of literature, still known to Aristophanes - realization of metaphor. You will say, metaphorically - "people went blind" and people will go blind. We have a strange synthesis of two popular genres - magical realism and post-apocalypse. Blindness covers almost the entire population of the nameless city, followed by rapid social degeneration and decline. Hidden in the blind is the sighted who does not recognize it...