Blindness (British Literature Series) - Tapa blanda

A quite astonishing tour de force . . . it announced the entry on the literary stage of the most genuinely original novelist of his day . . . He had an ear which was most delicately and sensitively attuned to every cadence and nuance of the English language as it is actually spoken.

The hopelessness of it all is effectively conveyed and the book has cleverness as well as pathos.

Stark to the point of cruelty . . . Nobody could deny Mr. Green's power.

As a psychological document it is far too convincing for comfort in its classification as fiction . . . The book is remarkable as the very inner sense of the experience of blindness suffered by a person naturally hyper-sensitive to beauty in all its norms, material and moral.

A rare imagination and sympathy in dealing with a difficult problem.

An unusual and compelling book . . . Blindness contains a quantity of keenly observed impressions, expressed in a clear and flexible prose.

Henry Green remains one of the few really considerable English novelists of our time. --Angus Wilson

Green belongs to the mad tradition in English literature Sterne, Carroll, Firbank, and Mrs. Woolf. --V. S. Pritchett

Blinded in an accident on his way home from boarding school, John Haye must reevaluate his life and the possibilities for his future. His stepmother-worried that, blind and dependent, he'll spend his life with her-wants to marry him off to anyone who will take him, provided she's of the "right" social class. Contrary to her hopes, John falls in love with the daughter of the town drunk (who is also the town parson). She whisks John off to London, where in this strange city he is confined to a room above a major thoroughfare while she gets on with her life.

Blindness was first published when Henry Green was an undergraduate at Oxford. Highly praised as a master of high-modernism, Green went on to write eight other novels, including Concluding and Doting.