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Free download or read online blindness pdf epub book. Blindness is a powerful parable, but i think it has to be read as a surrealistic allegory rather than any attempt to portray the situation as it might actually occur in the real world. As intermitencias da morte by jose saramago, translated from the portuguese by margaret jull costa. Jose saramago jose saramago 19222010 was the author of many novels, among them blindness, all the names, baltasar and blimunda, and the year of the death of ricardo reis. Publication date 2004 topics doppelgangers fiction, identity psychology fiction. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 326 pages and is available in paperback format. The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that hit the city four read more. Jose saramago simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A novel kindle edition by saramago, jose, costa, margaret.
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