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Original title Ensaio sobre a Lucidez Publisher Editorial Caminho Published in English 2006 Originally published 2004 Preceded by Blindness Country Portugal | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language Portuguese Publication date 2004 Pages 307pp Translator Margaret Jull Costa Published in english 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Seeing (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a Lucidez, lit. Essay on Lucidity) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago. It was published in Portuguese in 2004 and in English in 2006. It is a sequel to one of his most famous works, Blindness.
Plot summary
Seeing is a story set in the same country featured in Blindness and begins with a parliamentary election in which the majority of the populace casts blank ballots. The story revolves around the struggles of the government and its various members as they try to simultaneously understand and destroy the amorphous non-movement of blank-voters. Characters from Blindness appear in the second half of the novel, including 'the doctor' and 'the doctor's wife'.
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