The little Prince
Novel of the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry published in 1943, despite being taken by many people for a children's book by the way in which the writer gave form, the truth is that the title is quite philosophical and takes part of quite heavy topics such as human relationships, responsibility and deep reflections of life. In part, Exupery manifests a criticism of society, when thinking of adults, of that change in our way of seeing things from when we were children to when we became adults.
The novel tells the story of a pilot whose plane due to a fault places him in the Sahara desert, where he meets the little prince from another planet who tells his anecdotes of his trips around the universe, all people and personalities that he found in his wake and all the impressions and advice he received from each of them before arriving on earth.
In each anecdote the little prince leaves us a great moral, one of the most relevant examples of the book is his encounter with the fox, who teaches him the true meaning of friendship and human relationships. One of the many events, morals and advice given by the fox to the prince, one of the most impact he has generated in his readers is the secret that he gives him: "You can not see well except with your heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes"
Blindness
Novel of the Portuguese writer José Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. The title was published in 1995 as a manifestation or criticism of the author to a corrupt society. The novel has a singularity, the narrated people are not mentioned by their names, Saramago you name them according to their particularities as: the girl with the glasses, the child, etc.
The novel tells the story of a fictional city in which a very particular epidemic of blindness (white blindness) begins, which spreads rapidly and whose mechanism is ignored. The story focuses on the woman of a doctor who was affected by blindness, who in view of the city establish health security measures, isolating patients, decides to lie and pretend that he was also affected by the epidemic in order to be always with her husband.
In the development of the novel, with the progression of blindness to the entire population, all the atrocities of which human beings are capable with the simple instinct of survival (murders, rapes, abuse of power, etc.) are described. Of all the characters, the only one who is not affected by blindness is the doctor's wife, who can see how all that anarchy develops in the city.
At the end of the book Saramago delights us with a final phrase that says more than a thousand words:
«I think we are not blind, I think we are blind, blind people who see, blind people who, seeing, do not see».
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Really thick match many of the readers who have been able to enjoy these two excellent books, and for those who have not yet read, I recommend one hundred percent, I hope this post encourages them to acquire and immerse themselves in their lyrics. Impossible not to include them in the books you must read before dying