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In October 1998 José Saramago became the first writer of the Portuguese-speaking world to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy's citation for Saramago called his novels "parables sustained by imagination, compassion, and iron...

Blindness by Jose Saramago Jose Saramago (1922- ) was born in Azinhaga, in the inland Ribatejo region of Portugal, but his family moved to the seaside capital of Lisbon when he was still a child. His parents were not wealthy, so he acquired a secondary...

Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira) is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago. It was published in Portuguese in 1995 and in English in 1997. It is one of his most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and...

Journalism: The Dow had just pierced 13,000, but TV news anchors couldn't fathom why. All the data, they noted, showed the economy doing worse, not better. But therein lies a problem with media market analysis.Now, we'll gladly stipulate that knowing why the stock market is...

The parasite that causes river blindness, a crippling disease endemic in Africa and tropical regions of the Americas, may be developing resistance to the one drug used to treat it, according to research published Friday in The Lancet.The discovery could force public health officials to...

Reaching above her dark glasses, Riki Fritsh held a compact camera to her forehead and snapped away at a group of passengers boarding a bus. Most of the travelers were caught off guard by the camera's flash. But they were even more surprised to learn...

At sunrise Tuesday, hundreds of people _ most tapping the ground with white canes and a few making the trip on in-line skates _ marched from a downtown hotel to a city park more than half a mile away to make a point: Blind people...

In the book "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, the characters lack of vision breaks down their beahvior, and they begin to act like animals. This is symbolic of when individuals or society are blinded to their humanity, they become less than human.