The Protagonist Podcast

The Protagonist Podcast #123: The Doctor’s Wife in Blindness (Novel 1995) “Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”

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Joe and Todd discuss the doctor’s wife from the novel Blindness. They talk about Jose Saramago’s writing, the depths to which humans can sink (and the heights to which they can rise), and the believability of a societal collapse.

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    • Show Notes
    • José Saramago – Wikipedia
    • Blindness (Harvest Book): Jose Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero: 9780156007757: Amazon.com: Books
    • Blindness (2008) – IMDb
    • The Exterminating Angel (film) – Wikipedia)
    • Blindness (novel) – Wikipedia)
    • Midnight in Paris – Google Search
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