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An unnamed country is swept by a plague that causes everyone to go blind, creating societal chaos.
The book is followed by ''Seeing'' (''Ensaio Sobre a Lucidez'', "An Essay on Lucidity"), a 2004 novel set in the same country and with some CharacterOverlap. ''Blindness'' was [[Film/{{Blindness}} adapted into a film]] in 2008.
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!!This novel contains examples of:
* BelatedHappyEnding: In the sequel, set years later, the plague has passed and society has returned to normal.
* BottomlessMagazines: The King of Ward 3 has a revolver that has capacity of more than six bullets. Oddly, it is ''not'' used as a plot point, so this trope comes into play despite the person wielding it being blind.
* DisabilitySuperpower: All of humanity becomes blind with the exception of one person. People who were previously blind are accustomed to their condition, and have enough of an advantage that at least one becomes a gang leader of sorts.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: None of the characters have a name. They are referred to by their profession or physical appearance. The central couple are "the doctor" and "the doctor's wife".
* TheImmune: The story follows the one woman immune to the plague of blindness.
* NamelessNarrative: The characters are referred to by their roles or (ironically, given the fact all of them are stricken by blindness) physical descriptions.
* PostApocalypticDog: Civilization begins to collapse (at least in the unnamed city where the action takes place) after a plague of blindness strikes. A loving, faithful dog called only the "dog of tears" accompanies the one remaining sighted human in her quest to save herself and those around her.
* ScarpiaUltimatum: A gang of inmates led by the only man with a gun takes over the quarantined abandoned asylum, threatening the other residents, and stealing and hoarding all the food supplies. Eventually they demand payment in valuables, and then in women. [[spoiler:The women volunteer to go, as a group, in order to save the lives of all the other people living there]].
* TemporaryBlindness: This happens to an entire (unnamed) country, progressively, but for one woman. The "blindness" in question is unusual: milky-white instead of pitch-black. Needless to say, civilization crumbles in it.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The action takes place in an unidentified city in an unnamed country. Saramago considered this important enough that one of his conditions for allowing the film adaptation was that it must do the same.
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