Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People by Jackson Murray Magagna Jeanne

Author:Jackson, Murray,Magagna, Jeanne [Murray Jackson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317536864
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Saramago the writer

The chapters of Blindness (Saramago 1997) are neither numbered nor titled and there is no paragraphing and few full stops. One feels as though one is listening to someone telling a story. All this adds to the timeless, dreamlike atmosphere of the drama as the reader reaches the moving and enlightening finale in which the group finds its way to the doctor’s house, where the story began.

Saramago writes in the style of ‘magical realism’ typical of such Latin-American authors as Borges, Marquez and Allende, and his unusually complex style of writing has generated a large amount of critical evaluation by specialists. This idiosyncratic style of writing, which may deter some readers, neglects the ordinary rules of punctuation, and confronts the reader with the challenge of persevering with sentences of extraordinary length, peppered with apparently random asides, associations of a near obsessional nature, instructive homilies, analogies and various kinds of information. Despite, or perhaps because of this, Saramago’s use of symbolic expression, of dream, allegory, metaphor and analogy offers remarkable wisdom, humour and subtle wit. He emerges as a master storyteller, political satirist and humanist. Saramago was a profoundly introspective and cultured person, devoted to words and meanings, and acquainted with psychoanalytic thinking.

At the time of publication most established critics pronounced Blindness (1997) to be Saramago’s greatest work, a masterpiece, worthy of the Nobel Prize. Some saw it simply as science fiction, a replica of such classics as The Day of the Triffids (Wyndham 1951). Most regarded it simply as a political allegory, the blind leading the blind through the barbarism underlying civilized society. The namelessness of the cast of seven deeply embeds them in the narrative, since the reader may find himself repeatedly needing to recapitulate the drama in order to re-locate the individual in space and time. Their ages and anonymity suggest that the author, using the analogy of the seven ages of man, is asserting that this is a morality tale for Everyman.

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