title: [The blindness in the literature-Jose Saramago: blindness and Albert Bang: the blind witness].
abstract: Two novels with different aspects of blindness seen through the doctors eyes. The Portuguese Nobel-prize winner José Saramago's story of a city struck by an epidemic of "white blindness", where the truth is what we cannot bear to see. The Danish author and unskilled labourer Albert Bang's (synonym with Karl E. Rasmussen) crime novel describes a blind or pretend to be blind butcher, who is a witness to a murder. Both novels are lyric, thought-provoking and insightful.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Permin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Norn
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness / Q000266:history*; D003718:Denmark; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008091:Literature / Q000266:history*; D011174:Portugal