context: Blindness is a novel written by Portuguese Jose Saramago, and considered one of his most prominent literary works. [1] [2] [3] The novel speaks of a mysterious epidemic afflicting a city, where the people of this city suddenly become blind, creating a wave of panic and chaos that leads to the intervention of the army in order to control the situation, but the situation becomes even more tragic when the army gives up the helpless and frail crowds, which leads to that To the gangs control the rest of the food and medicine. People start fighting among themselves. The story also highlights the human side of the doctor, his wife and his family who remained together until the disease suddenly disappeared. The novel talks about intellectual blindness, as the doctor's wife said at the end of the novel, "I do not think that we are blind but rather that we are blind, they see, blind human beings who can see but do not see", also indicating that human morals and human principles are fragile in front of human want.
question: Who is the author of Blindness?
answers.text: Jose Saramago