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Category Archives: LITERATURE
LITERATURE: Blindness – What’s the Impetus, What’s the Straw?
As with all apocalyptic or disaster stories the characters face obstacles that force them to face themselves first. The name of the game is always survival. The ethics involve personal versus community, wrong versus right considering circumstances (something that ethics … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Blindness – Poking the Reader in the Eye with a Sharp Stick
Cormac McCarthy does that; just when you round a bend you see a tree that looks a little odd… What Saramago does however is to get the reader riled up on his own and then calm him down. I have … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Blindness – Struggles and Morals
With a small group of men–all from one ward–taking over the distribution of food and demanding payment of all valuables (and, they have a gun), there naturally comes about a societal structure different from the outside world as well as … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Blindness – Credibility
Maybe it's just because I'm in a pissy mood, but I'm not buying this story. For one thing, Saramago is rather particular about numbers and distances and yet I can't quite grasp how two wings of three wards each, each … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Blindness – Themes
There is, of course, as with all stories about epidemics or devastation of some sort, the ethical and moral questions that come up when man's nature is questioned in a survival situation. From the very beginning of the book when … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Blindness – The Unreliable Narrator
Another stumbling block here for me; this story is told in third person omniscient which enables (and answers my question of the previous post) him to tell the story from his own frame of reference and abilities. However, he is … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Blindness – The IF Factor
Just posted an entry on Hypercompendia when the thought occurred to me that the storyworld of the mental institution and a bunch of blind people trying to find their way around within it was perfect for the Interactive Fiction mapping … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Blindness – Accuracy
UPDATE: Okay, a page or two further explains that the guards possibly missed the transfer of five folk from one ward to the other, but it doesn't explain why the five meals for the original six. Unless…knowing there is one … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Blindness – Verisimilitude
Very odd, when you think about it, that we even use such a term and seek it in the fiction we read. Fiction, after all, should allow for anything the imagination can dream up. In setting up a storyworld, however, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Blindness – Exposition
There is a very interesting and intense method in which the heart of the story is being laid out in these opening chapters. The characters are linked by chance meetings, then each, almost as if infected by virus, become subject … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Blindness – Voice
Saramago's narrative voice sounds almost unnaturally formal and prissy following Junot Diaz's Oscar Wao, but this particular eloquence in describing a very ladylike prostitute's meeting in a hotel with her client is, well, a hoot. Two guests got out [of … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Chekhov
Read The Kiss a few days ago and what more could I write about Chekhov that hasn't already been said? His stories just leave you with an Awww feeling. The last story I read of his that I recall was … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Blindness – Opening Thoughts on Conflict and Style
Saramago starts off the story in a familiar place, in traffic stopped at a red light. We begin to feel the restlessness of the drivers, the pedestrians, the anxiety that comes naturally with watching movement that at intervals, comes to … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Munro’s The Moons of Jupiter – Finale
I found myself, as always, reading through this one too quickly because it is the last story in the anthology. Reading Munro is always a pleasure, always a learning process. In this story, a woman is helping her elderly father … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Munro’s Visitors
Munro sets the stage: an older couple, Mildred and Wilfred, entertaining visitors, his brother Albert, his wife and her sister, in their small home for the summer. Then she paints in the characters, Mildred and Wilfrid are large, robust people; … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology