ABSTRACT
Saramago, the world-famous Portuguese novelist, wrote a story, Blindness (Saramago, 1997) of extreme violence which won him fame and a Nobel Prize. All his novels are a journey into the past of his country, his childhood, his own mind, and his conscious and unconscious phantasies, both destructive and creative. His depiction of human cruelty portrays the destructiveness that threatens the future of civilization (Barrosso, 1998). Its profound impact derives in part from the echoes that it arouses in the introspective reader.
