He writes with wit, with heartbreaking dignity, and with the simplicity of a great artist in full control of his art. Le Guin gave Saramago's Seeing high praise, noting that, "He has written a novel that says more about the days we are living in than any book I have read. Seeing received generally positive reviews. Some of the characters from Blindness appear in the second half of the novel, including 'the doctor' and 'the doctor's wife', and the 'dog of tears' now with the name, Constant. The first half of the story focuses on the struggles of the government and its various nameless members as they try to simultaneously understand and destroy the amorphous non-movement of blank-voters. The story begins with a parliamentary election, in which the majority (83%) of the populace cast blank ballots. Seeing is set in the same unnamed country featured in Blindness. Seeing is the sequel to one of Saramago's most famous works, Blindness. The book was published in Portuguese in 2004 and then in English in 2006. Essay on Lucidity) is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago. Seeing ( Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a Lucidez, lit.
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