ساراماگو ایک ساحر اور صاحبِ بصرت ناول نگار (ساراماگو کے دو ناولوں کا تنقدای جائزہ)

Abstract

Saramago, a Mesmerizer and a Visionary: Critical Analysis of Blindness and A Death with Interruptions

Jose Saramago is a seminal name in the annals of literature of the late twentieth and early twenty- first century. Studded with Nobel prize for literature in 2010, Saramago has managed to carve a unique place in our postmodern fiction. In the present article, two of Saramago's greatest novels ' Blindness ' and ' Death with Interruptions ' have been discussed. Blindness can be taken as a dystopian vision of our impending future when Man would cease to be cognizant about any values and as such his life would be a blind trudge. This is the very point that our writer wants to make; if we stop to see and understand our predicaments, time will not be far when we will cease to be humans at all. In Blindness, characters are blind to their own lack of understanding and perspective and it grows to such an extent that the blindness becomes a society wide scourge. Saramago's vision oozes out of the pages of the novel and seems to make a dialogue with the reader which in any case is the ultimate that a writer can ask for. In ' Death with Interruptions ‘, Saramago in this novel has taken up the perennial issue of life and death. What if death ceases to be? Behind the veil of discussion of necessity for death to be part of our lives, Saramago has evaluated principal questions with regard to philosophy, religion, human psychology and sociology. The author has come a full circle; the question of death permeates the beginning as well as the end of the novel. In this article, effort has been made to introduce such a brilliant author and his work to Urdu centric readers and at the same time try to find some aspects of Saramago fiction which this scribe feels our Urdu reader is very much entitled to.