Seeing (novel)

The city of the sighted ( Ensaio sobre a lucidez ) is a published in 2004 novel by José Saramago.

In the capital of a Western country, voters who are tired of politics of the ruling, issued ballots in the municipal election to more than 70 % empty ( ' white '). The amazing thing is that there had been no detectable mobilization at the moment. Starting from this initial situation, the government declared a state of siege in the capital and isolated them from the rest of the country. Finally occur as suspected author of the persons alleged uprising of the book Blindness on.

The city of the sighted is a criticism Saramago to the political institutions of Western democracies.

In the 2004 European elections of Portugal, in which the author ran unsuccessfully, blank vote was invited to provide what may Saramago the idea for this work.

• Literary work
• Literature ( 21st century)
• Literature ( Portuguese)
• Literature ( Portugal)
• Novel, epic
• Work of José Saramago