{"pk":36727,"title":"The Essayistic Touch: Saramago's Version of Blindness and Lucidity","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes José Saramago's Ensaio sobre a ceguiera and Ensaio sobre a lucidez as essayistic novels. After a theoretical overview of the essay as a genre, the paper focuses on the essayistic traits of these works and proposes a possible allegorical reading of these two novels.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Copyright","short_name":"Copyright","text":"","url":"https://escholarship.org/terms"},"keywords":[{"word":"José Saramago"},{"word":"The Essay"},{"word":"Disability Studies"},{"word":"Portuguese Literature"}],"section":"General","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tt3p7fm","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Krista","middle_name":"","last_name":"Brune","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California - Berkeley","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2010-03-08T08:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2010-03-08T08:00:00Z","date_published":"2010-07-07T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/mester/article/36727/galley/27569/download/"}]}