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Sinopse

Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - not spoiled, simply blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later. The result is worse; eighty-three per cent of the votes are blank. The incumbent government receives eight per cent and the opposition even less. The authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency. In his new novel, Jose Saramago has deftly created the politician´s ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. Seeing explores how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be.

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José Saramago

Filho e neto de camponeses, José Saramago nasceu na aldeia de Azinhaga, província do Ribatejo, no dia 16 de Novembro de 1922, se bem que o registo oficial mencione como data de nascimento o dia 18. Os seus pais emigraram para Lisboa quando ele não havia ainda completado dois anos. A maior parte da sua vida decorreu, portanto, na capital, embora até aos primeiros anos da idade adulta fossem numerosas, e por vezes prolongadas, as suas estadas…

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