bad time to vote, complained the president of the polling station after polling station fourteen slammed the rain soaked and taking off a raincoat that very little had served nell'affannato trot fifty yards from where he had left the car up to the door, heart pounding, had just entered. I hope not to be the last, he told the secretary who was waiting a few steps back, away the volleys that, pushed by wind, flooding the floor. His deputy is still missing, but we are on time, reassured the secretary, if it continues to rain so it will be quite a feat if we get everyone, "said the president while being moved in the room where the vote would take place. He greeted his colleagues on the bench for the first they would do the tellers, then the list of representatives and their respective alternates. He used to use the attention to all the same words, leaving no shine in his face or tone of voice to capture any evidence that would allow his personal political views and ideological. A president, albeit of a polling station as normal as this, you will be in all situations according to the most rigorous sense of independence, or, in other words, keeping up appearances.
[ José Saramago , Essay on lucidity , trans. Rita Desti ]
Saramago's style of writing is my absolute favorite. The engineer is working in an impeccable use of syntax and a proper restraint of periodize but here we must inevitably recall the work of the translator.
The lucidity Essay on Blindness restarts. In the same place, with the same protagonists. An election where, unexpectedly, the population did not desert the ballot box, not look for alternatives. He goes to vote compact card ... White triggering thus a process that can cripple the democratic mechanisms, highlights two characteristics of power: the arrogance of his actions and systematic use of lies inextricably functional.
Tomorrow I am going to vote early in the morning. A cross in pencil, my vote "useless".
Readings
José Saramago, Blindness , Einaudi
José Saramago , Essay on the lucidity , Einaudi
Images
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