Blindness

Unquestionably considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, Blindness was written in Germany at a time when literature was on the verge of disappearing under the dirty shadows of politics. However, Elias Canetti has transcended boundaries and reached the highest dimensions of universality thanks to the time and place he created, the language and style he used, the accuracy of the abstraction in his characters and his success in conveying these.

Blindness, embodied in the tragedy of an intellectual who has long withdrawn into his own ivory tower, manages to depict the external environment that mankind has created with his own hands, and then finds alienated and hostile towards him, in an extremely original way and with what can be considered the most extreme means.

Canetti, who skillfully reflects the extent to which man can become blind in the face of reality in the character of the “impotent” intellectual, who can be encountered in every period and every society, deeply shakes the reader with the atmosphere of terror he creates while telling the story of the break between thought and reality.