As coisas difíceis do mundo

Resumo

Within the thematic context of “Confinement as a creativity thrust”, this essay aims to establish a connection between the novel Blindness, by José Saramago, and the disintegration process, as is stated by the polish poet Czesław Miłosz is his The witness of poetry. In order to do so, it begins with a brief reflection on the meaning of a quote from Saramago’s novel; then, based on Miłosz’s writings, the so-called disintegration process is introduced and discussed, highlighting the hierarchy of needs that is built in the very fabric of reality when a misfortune touches a human collective. Moving on to the identification, in Blindness, of the elements mentioned above, it is concluded that the confinement resulting from real and fictional epidemics serves as fuel for aesthetic thrusts driven by those who write and as a basis for deep existential reflections in those who read.