Jose Saramago Özel Set-7 Kitap Takım

BLINDNESS

In an unknown city of an unknown country, his car A man behind the wheel waiting for the traffic light to turn green suddenly becomes blind. However, he is not buried in darkness, but in a pure white void. Then, the blindness epidemic spreads throughout the city and even the whole country. Neither governance nor order remains in the country; All blind people are quarantined. Unimaginable chaos, filth, hunger and tyranny now reign. Life has stopped, people's only effort is to survive at all costs. The novel focuses on seven people, one of whom is a child, who are quarantined in the mental hospital in the city and who are inseparable from each other when they are released. Among them, there is a woman who is the only person with eyesight in the whole city and who guides the group. These seven people struggle to survive in this city that has turned into hell. This chaotic world, described by Saramago with a great power of observation, is the symbol of the dark side of man.

Blindness is a frightening novel, the story of how a society that experiences an unexpected disaster collapses, becomes selfish and loses its value judgments. Despite the spookiness of its subject, this unforgettable novel, told with extraordinary poetry, is perhaps the master author's most impressive work.

PERHAPS JOY

“Life always leaves behind dark silences, ruins that do not turn to ashes, unknown islands, including the longest-lived old man whose beard resembles a river. Even if not sixty years, but an unimaginable six hundred more years pass, this time will not be enough to make the islands habitable or reduce the ruins to ashes; one cannot escape the obligation to talk about darkness again.”

NOTEBOOKS

“On the night of November 22, 2007, at four in the morning, I 'died' and only Nine hours later, 'I was resurrected.' A complete organic collapse, a posture in body functions that took me to the last threshold of life, where it was too late to say goodbye. I don't remember anything. Pilar was there, my aunt María was there, both of them, in front of a body that had become motionless, a cadaver abandoned by all forces and whose soul seemed to have vanished, a cadaver that could not be helped other than being alive. They are the ones who tell me today what those hours were like. Mother, my grandson, came the evening of the next day. Father and grandfather were still as pale as the flame of a candle threatening to be consumed by the wind of its own breathing. Then I realized that my body would be placed in the library, surrounded by books and, let's say, other flowers. I ran away. A year of slow, very slow recovery, as the doctors said, gave me back my health, my energy, my agility of thought, and it also gave me back that universal remedy: work. I took my own 'Elephant Journey' towards life, not death, and here I am. At your disposal.”

“Saramago's Notebooks is not a sad book [...] it is not an angry book, it is just a farewell.”

- Pilar del Río ( his wife) -

SEE

We are again in the nameless city of the nameless country of Blindness. Moreover, not long has passed since the tragedy, while the memory of the horror it aroused is fresh and its victims are still alive, a new disaster, or rather an extraordinary situation, is befalling the city. Elections are held, ballot boxes are set up.

But something unexpected happens and the majority of the votes are empty. The government immediately goes on alert with the suspicion of a conspiracy and tries to grind this unexpected situation within the wheels of the political order; When he cannot get results, he finds the solution by declaring martial law and leaving the city. However, contrary to expectations, when disorder does not arise in the absence of order, it is still up to political power to remove it.

Saramago blends satire and allegory with a deep understanding and sharp vision, and leaves no place in our minds unmoved by constantly digging with his magnificent language acrobatics. In his unforgettable work, he reveals the poverty of thought called heroism and the obsession with power nestled in its cavities. Fars has never been told so tragically.

THE STORY OF AN UNKNOWN ISLAND

“A man knocked on the king's door and said to him, Give me a boat.”

This is how the journey of a man who had the courage to search for an unknown island at a time when it was believed that there were no unknown islands left, and a woman who believed that she could see such courage and change her life, began their journey that went down in literary history in the unique narrative of the great master Saramago. With Emrah İmre's translation from Portuguese and Birol Bayram's drawings, it will be one of the reader's minor masterpieces The Story of the Unknown Island.

“(...) I want to find the unknown island, when I set foot on that island. I want to know who I am, Don't you know that, Unless you go out and look at yourself, you will never know who you are, (...)”

“Saramago tells a seemingly simple story with a simple language and innocent characters; readers, dreamers and lovers will recognize the psychological, romantic and social subtexts.”

- Publishers Weekly -

ONCE AGAINST DEATH