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Narrado por:
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Jonathan Davis
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José Saramago
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A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of "white blindness", which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there social conventions quickly crumble and the struggle for survival brings out the worst in people.
There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers -among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears - out of their prison and through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing.
A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the 20th century, by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago, Blindness has swept the masses with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses - and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit.
English translation by Juan Sager.
©1997 Juan Sager (English translation); 1995 Jose Saramago and Editorial Caminho (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks AmericaLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind.
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Perfect Narrator for a Brilliant Satire
- De Peter Crawford en 12-11-15
De: P. D. James
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Cain
- De: José Saramago
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, he is whisked around in time and space. He experiences the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Joshua at the battle of Jericho, Jobe's ordeal, and finally Noah's ark and the Flood.
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One Heck of Funny Book!!!!!
- De Melinda en 10-14-15
De: José Saramago
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Ensayo sobre la ceguera [Blindness]
- De: José Saramago
- Narrado por: Víctor Velasco
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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Un hombre parado ante un semáforo en rojo se queda ciego súbitamente. Es el primer caso de una «ceguera blanca» que se expande de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos en la ciudad, los ciegos tendrán que enfrentarse con lo que existe de más primitivo en la naturaleza humana: la voluntad de sobrevivir a cualquier precio. Ensayo sobre la ceguera es la ficción de un autor que nos alerta sobre «la responsabilidad de tener ojos cuando otros los perdieron».
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¡Desgarradora, increíble, hermosa!
- De Enrique en 04-17-21
De: José Saramago
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Johnny Got His Gun
- De: Dalton Trumbo
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered - not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives. This is no ordinary novel. This is the story of a young American soldier terribly maimed in World War I - he "survives" armless, legless, and faceless, but with his mind intact.
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READ THE INTRODUCTION LAST
- De Carollynn7 en 11-27-11
De: Dalton Trumbo
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We
- De: Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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Set in the 26th century A.D., Yevgeny Zamyatin's masterpiece describes life under the regimented totalitarian society of OneState, ruled over by the all-powerful "Benefactor." Recognized as the inspiration for George Orwell's 1984, We is the archetype of the modern dystopia, or anti-Utopia: a great prose poem detailing the fate that might befall us all if we surrender our individual selves to some collective dream of technology and fail in the vigilance that is the price of freedom.
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Interesting history, prose a little outdated
- De Joel D Offenberg en 11-30-11
De: Yevgeny Zamyatin
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A Spectre, Haunting
- De: China Miéville
- Narrado por: China Miéville
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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In 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published by two émigrés from Germany. Marx and Engels' apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of the world reduces every relationship to that of profit, and burst asunder the old forms of production and of politics. It is still a recognisable picture of our world—the vampiric energy of the system being once again highly contentious. This is a strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today.
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A great follow up to October
- De Amazon Customer en 01-18-23
De: China Miéville
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Waiting for the Barbarians
- De: J. M. Coetzee
- Narrado por: Andrew Wincott
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state.
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An Interesting Read For The Current Times
- De Jen en 04-05-20
De: J. M. Coetzee
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Fever Dream
- A Novel
- De: Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell - translator
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 3 h y 13 m
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Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream...A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale.
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Ghastly tale, brilliantly told.
- De Kat - Audible en 03-22-18
De: Samanta Schweblin, y otros
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The Glass Bead Game
- De: Hermann Hesse
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 21 h y 17 m
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Set in the 23rd century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, which has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game).
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Great – but be warned
- De Michael en 01-02-13
De: Hermann Hesse
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Fathers and Sons
- De: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrado por: David Horovitch
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father by criticising the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away the traditional values of contemporary Russian society.
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The greatest novel I'll ever read
- De Dan Harlow en 07-07-13
De: Ivan Turgenev
Story: hmm there are disturbing parts, disgusting parts, surprising outcomes…… honest view of what humanity becomes when civilization crashes
Good overall
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Too philosophical
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Not the best.
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So repetitive
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Saramago captures the terror that descends as sight is lost, both at the individual level as well as the societal level. Horrible people do horrible things even when sightless. It’s also clear that no one is prepared for what is happening as well as what’s to come. The one seeing woman makes for a fascinating character as she must at times pretend or fake being blind to prevent being overwhelmed, while still carrying the bulk of the responsibility for taking care of everyone.
The narration is superb with excellent character distinction. Pacing is smooth and on the brisk side.
No vision statement
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An interesting premise but...
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Aren't we all blind
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Captivating story
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I thought it was a provocative read, intriguing and thought provoking. But dont expect Crichton. Think Lord of the Flies by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Surrealistic
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This is definitely not a dystopian fantasy. It is not philosophy either.
Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of Blindness are the reviews. Some see darkness, nightmares, frightening, heartbreaking. Others see beauty, uplifting, thought-provoking, interesting. Some say boring, unrealistic, and just plain bad. Some are deeply offended by the violence, poop, stench, vomit, and decomposition. Some people even hate the Dog of Tears! All this is what makes Blindness powerful.
The narration is excellent.
Blindness is Powerful
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