Interesting thought experiment. What would happen if a whole city went blind? Saramango doesn't seem to be much of an optimist, but his predictions are probably accurate. Nevertheless, it's difficult to read about what he thinks would happen. I'm surprised I didn't like it because postmodernist Sci-Fi's are usually really cool books, and I love long paragraphs that break from convention and meander. Maybe it was a poor translation or it had flat characters that failed to captivate me, but most likely it was the fact that most of the book is set in a white-walled asylum. I guess I felt suffocated by the lack of setting. I think it would have been a much better book if he distributed scenes of civil chaos in the city between the endless chapters of quarantine.
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