Seeing (novel)

Not to be confused with Seeing I.

Seeing
First edition
Author	José Saramago
Original title	Ensaio sobre a Lucidez
Translator	Margaret Jull Costa
Country	Portugal
Language	Portuguese
Publisher	Editorial Caminho
Publication date	2004
Published in English	2006
Pages	307pp
ISBN	0-15-101238-5
OCLC	62302340
Dewey Decimal	869.3/42 22
LC Class	PQ9281.A66 E7713 2006
Preceded by	Blindness

Seeing (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a Lucidez, lit. Essay on Lucidity) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago. It was published in Portuguese in 2004 and in English in 2006. It is a sequel to one of his most famous works, Blindness.

Plot summary

Seeing is a story set in the same country featured in Blindness and begins with a parliamentary election in which the majority of the populace casts blank ballots. The story revolves around the struggles of the government and its various members as they try to simultaneously understand and destroy the amorphous non-movement of blank-voters. Characters from Blindness appear in the second half of the novel, including 'the doctor' and 'the doctor's wife'.

Works by José Saramago

Novels	Land of Sin This World and the Other The Traveller's Baggage Opinions That DL Had The Notes Manual of Painting and Calligraphy Baltasar and Blimunda The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis The Stone Raft The History of the Siege of Lisbon The Gospel According to Jesus Christ Blindness All the Names The Cave The Double Seeing Death with Interruptions Memories of My Youth The Elephant's Journey Cain

Short stories	Quasi Object (1978) Poética dos Cinco Sentidos - O Ouvido (1979) "The Tale of the Unknown Island" (1997)

Non-fiction	Journey to Portugal

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