José Saramago wrote literary fiction and allegorical novels that place ordinary people inside impossible situations and follow the social consequences with dry, often dark humour. Blindness begins when an unexplained epidemic of white blindness spreads through a city, leading authorities to quarantine the affected and exposing how quickly familiar rules break down. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ reimagines biblical material from a deliberately human and questioning perspective, while Death with Interruptions imagines a country where people suddenly stop dying. Saramago's prose is distinctive for long sentences, limited punctuation and dialogue woven into paragraphs without conventional quotation marks. His work fits literary allegory, philosophical fiction and speculative literary fiction, particularly for readers comfortable with unconventional narrative form. Read more Less
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