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The writer is a blind man who moves with his family into the first blind man and the first blind man’s wife’s apartment after another group of blind people occupies his family’s apartment while they are away. Despite being unable to read his work, the writer continues to write because this allows him to maintain his individual identity by preserving his “voice” and capturing the experiences of the city’s residents for posterity. After the first blind man and his wife leave the hospital, like the rest of the surviving internees, they hope to visit their old home and possibly resettle there, but they discover the writer living inside. The writer asks them about the quarantine and shows them some of his work, which only the doctor’s wife can read, and then offers to let the first blind man and his wife return to their old apartment even if it means evicting him. It seems that the writer has managed to maintain his morality and empathy by continuing to write—in this way, he contrasts strongly with the hordes of starving blind people outside, who have lost all sense of identity, individuality, and voice through the crisis.
The writer Quotes in Blindness
The Blindness quotes below are all either spoken by The writer or refer to The writer . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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I am a writer, we are supposed to know such things. The first blind man felt flattered, imagine, a writer living in my flat, then a doubt rose in him, was it good manners to ask him his name, he might even have heard of his name, it was even possible that he had read him, he was still hesitating between curiosity and discretion, when his wife put the question directly, What is your name, Blind people do nor need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters, But you wrote books and those books carry your name, said the doctor's wife, Now nobody can read them, it is as if they did not exist.
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The writer Quotes in Blindness
The Blindness quotes below are all either spoken by The writer or refer to The writer . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 15
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I am a writer, we are supposed to know such things. The first blind man felt flattered, imagine, a writer living in my flat, then a doubt rose in him, was it good manners to ask him his name, he might even have heard of his name, it was even possible that he had read him, he was still hesitating between curiosity and discretion, when his wife put the question directly, What is your name, Blind people do nor need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters, But you wrote books and those books carry your name, said the doctor's wife, Now nobody can read them, it is as if they did not exist.
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