Seeing - Tapa blanda

"A novel that says more about the days we are living in than any book I have read. [Saramago] writes with wit, heartbreaking dignity, and with the simplicity of a great artist in total control of his art."--Ursula K. Le Guin

"I have never read a novel that gets so many details of the political behavior that we for some reason insist on calling 'organized' so hilariously and grimly right." -- Chicago Tribune

The clarity and compassion of [Saramago's] vision make Seeing worthy of its name." --The Washington Post Book World

"Saramago understands that ridicule is a terrifically effective political weapon, and in Seeing he makes it his business to turn repression into farce...The 'blankers', as the stubborn nonvoters are called, are quiet and even docile, just the way a government ordinarily likes its citizens to be, but their refusal to pretend that the electoral process gives them a choice worth making is deeply subversive." --New York Times Book Review

"Saramago's unsettling allegory of power and politics . . . stays with you long after the last page is turned."-- Cleveland Plain Dealer

"We live in age when democracy is being touted as the panacea to the world's ills -- and not just abroad. 'Seeing' suggests a more complicated scenario. It offers that democracy is welcome in our times: that is, so long as it produces the results those in power want." -- Denver Post

"[A] searching, dry-witted, spot-on political parable." -- NewYork Observer

"The spirit of George Orwell rises from these blistering pages . . . another invaluable gift from a matchless writer." --Kirkus Reviews