Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - The Gospel According to Jesus Christ - Blindness [3 Books in One]

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José Saramago: Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - The Gospel According to Jesus Christ - Blindness [3 Books in One] (Paperback, 1999, Quality Paperback Book Club)

Paperback, 1044 pages

English language

Published Aug. 19, 1999 by Quality Paperback Book Club.

ISBN:
978-0-9650796-7-9
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Review of 'Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - The Gospel According to Jesus Christ - Blindness [3 Books in One]' on 'Goodreads'

I read the German version and I was really excited. Go deep into the human psychology. A sickness makes peoples bind, whats follow is horrible!

Must read!

Review of 'Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - The Gospel According to Jesus Christ - Blindness [3 Books in One]' on 'Goodreads'

The plot was okay, but the writing often felt contrived. I often found myself thinking about how unrealistic some of the dialogue sounded. I listened to this as an audiobook, which probably affected my perception.

Review of 'Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - The Gospel According to Jesus Christ - Blindness [3 Books in One]' on 'Goodreads'

I don't normally write reviews, but I feel the need to explain my rating. While I agree with previous reviewers that it is tough not to compare this to Comac McCarthy's "The Road" (though admittedly unfair), which I thought was more deftly executed, overall I can appreciate the significance of this book and what Saramago was trying to do. However, I found the experience of reading it just too difficult. The experience the characters live through is horrifying, and Saramago's precise descriptions of certain details, while necessary to make his point, were just too much for me. I much prefer, for example, McCarthy's circumscribed description of the fate of the people in the basement, which required some mental leaps on the reader's part, to Saramago's nothing-to-the-imagination explanation of what happened to the people in the grocery store storeroom. Also, I can appreciate the confusion of blindness conveyed by the prose …

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