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Blinded in an accident on his way home from boarding school, John Haye must reevaluate his life and the possibilities for his future. His stepmother-worried that, blind and dependent, he'll spend his life with her-wants to marry him off to anyone who will take him, provided she's of the "right" social class. Contrary to her hopes, John falls in love with the daughter of the town drunk (who is also the town parson). She whisks John off to London, where in this strange city he is confined to a room above a major thoroughfare while she gets on with her life.
Blindness was first published when Henry Green was an undergraduate at Oxford. Highly praised as a master of high-modernism, Green went on to write eight other novels, including Concluding and Doting.
Blindness was first published when Henry Green was an undergraduate at Oxford. Highly praised as a master of high-modernism, Green went on to write eight other novels, including Concluding and Doting.
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A quite astonishing tour de force...it announced the entry on the literary stage of the most genuinely original novelist of his day.... [Green] had an ear which was most delicately and sensitively attuned to every cadence and nuance of the English language as it is actually spoken. Encounter
Writers do not need to see but to feel, to get away from reality by closing their eyes to it. This exchange of the sensual for the cerebral is a sacrifice without which no art will be made. It is symbolized overpoweringly in Blindness. John Sturrock, The Times Literary Supplement
[Blindness] is a polished piece of energetic young work that students of the 20th-century novel s development will be eager to examine. And Green s admirers will welcome a significant addition to his relatively small canon. Kirkus Reviews
Green s remains the most interesting and vital imagination in English fiction in our time. Eudora Welty
Green s novels reproduce as few do the actual sensations of living. Elizabeth Bowen
At its highest pitch Green s writing brings the rectangle of the printed page alive like little else in English fiction in this century. John Updike
Blindness is a literary masterpiece that displays the sheer breadth of his abilities. Green uses parenthetical statements and an idiosyncratic sentence structure to describe innovative methods of interpretation in a state of blindness. One of the great unsung architects of modernist literature, Green uses the concept of blindness to show that we are inherently blind to the true nature of reality. Qwiklit Blog"
"A quite astonishing tour de force...it announced the entry on the literary stage of the most genuinely original novelist of his day.... [Green] had an ear which was most delicately and sensitively attuned to every cadence and nuance of the English language as it is actually spoken."--Encounter
"Writers do not need to see but to feel, to get away from reality by closing their eyes to it. This exchange of the sensual for the cerebral is a sacrifice without which no art will be made. It is symbolized overpoweringly in Blindness."--John Sturrock, The Times Literary Supplement
"[Blindness] is a polished piece of energetic young work that students of the 20th-century novel's development will be eager to examine. And Green's admirers will welcome a significant addition to his relatively small canon."--Kirkus Reviews
"Green's remains the most interesting and vital imagination in English fiction in our time."--Eudora Welty
"Green's novels reproduce as few do the actual sensations of living."--Elizabeth Bowen
"At its highest pitch Green's writing brings the rectangle of the printed page alive like little else in English fiction in this century."--John Updike
"Blindness is a literary masterpiece that displays the sheer breadth of his abilities. Green uses parenthetical statements and an idiosyncratic sentence structure to describe innovative methods of interpretation in a state of blindness. One of the great unsung architects of modernist literature, Green uses the concept of blindness to show that we are inherently blind to the true nature of reality."--Qwiklit Blog
-A quite astonishing tour de force...it announced the entry on the literary stage of the most genuinely original novelist of his day.... [Green] had an ear which was most delicately and sensitively attuned to every cadence and nuance of the English language as it is actually spoken.---Encounter
-Writers do not need to see but to feel, to get away from reality by closing their eyes to it. This exchange of the sensual for the cerebral is a sacrifice without which no art will be made. It is symbolized overpoweringly in Blindness.---John Sturrock, The Times Literary Supplement
-[Blindness] is a polished piece of energetic young work that students of the 20th-century novel's development will be eager to examine. And Green's admirers will welcome a significant addition to his relatively small canon.---Kirkus Reviews
-Green's remains the most interesting and vital imagination in English fiction in our time.---Eudora Welty
-Green's novels reproduce as few do the actual sensations of living.---Elizabeth Bowen
-At its highest pitch Green's writing brings the rectangle of the printed page alive like little else in English fiction in this century.---John Updike
-Blindness is a literary masterpiece that displays the sheer breadth of his abilities. Green uses parenthetical statements and an idiosyncratic sentence structure to describe innovative methods of interpretation in a state of blindness. One of the great unsung architects of modernist literature, Green uses the concept of blindness to show that we are inherently blind to the true nature of reality.---Qwiklit Blog
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Writers do not need to see but to feel, to get away from reality by closing their eyes to it. This exchange of the sensual for the cerebral is a sacrifice without which no art will be made. It is symbolized overpoweringly in Blindness. John Sturrock, The Times Literary Supplement
[Blindness] is a polished piece of energetic young work that students of the 20th-century novel s development will be eager to examine. And Green s admirers will welcome a significant addition to his relatively small canon. Kirkus Reviews
Green s remains the most interesting and vital imagination in English fiction in our time. Eudora Welty
Green s novels reproduce as few do the actual sensations of living. Elizabeth Bowen
At its highest pitch Green s writing brings the rectangle of the printed page alive like little else in English fiction in this century. John Updike
Blindness is a literary masterpiece that displays the sheer breadth of his abilities. Green uses parenthetical statements and an idiosyncratic sentence structure to describe innovative methods of interpretation in a state of blindness. One of the great unsung architects of modernist literature, Green uses the concept of blindness to show that we are inherently blind to the true nature of reality. Qwiklit Blog"
"A quite astonishing tour de force...it announced the entry on the literary stage of the most genuinely original novelist of his day.... [Green] had an ear which was most delicately and sensitively attuned to every cadence and nuance of the English language as it is actually spoken."--Encounter
"Writers do not need to see but to feel, to get away from reality by closing their eyes to it. This exchange of the sensual for the cerebral is a sacrifice without which no art will be made. It is symbolized overpoweringly in Blindness."--John Sturrock, The Times Literary Supplement
"[Blindness] is a polished piece of energetic young work that students of the 20th-century novel's development will be eager to examine. And Green's admirers will welcome a significant addition to his relatively small canon."--Kirkus Reviews
"Green's remains the most interesting and vital imagination in English fiction in our time."--Eudora Welty
"Green's novels reproduce as few do the actual sensations of living."--Elizabeth Bowen
"At its highest pitch Green's writing brings the rectangle of the printed page alive like little else in English fiction in this century."--John Updike
"Blindness is a literary masterpiece that displays the sheer breadth of his abilities. Green uses parenthetical statements and an idiosyncratic sentence structure to describe innovative methods of interpretation in a state of blindness. One of the great unsung architects of modernist literature, Green uses the concept of blindness to show that we are inherently blind to the true nature of reality."--Qwiklit Blog
-A quite astonishing tour de force...it announced the entry on the literary stage of the most genuinely original novelist of his day.... [Green] had an ear which was most delicately and sensitively attuned to every cadence and nuance of the English language as it is actually spoken.---Encounter
-Writers do not need to see but to feel, to get away from reality by closing their eyes to it. This exchange of the sensual for the cerebral is a sacrifice without which no art will be made. It is symbolized overpoweringly in Blindness.---John Sturrock, The Times Literary Supplement
-[Blindness] is a polished piece of energetic young work that students of the 20th-century novel's development will be eager to examine. And Green's admirers will welcome a significant addition to his relatively small canon.---Kirkus Reviews
-Green's remains the most interesting and vital imagination in English fiction in our time.---Eudora Welty
-Green's novels reproduce as few do the actual sensations of living.---Elizabeth Bowen
-At its highest pitch Green's writing brings the rectangle of the printed page alive like little else in English fiction in this century.---John Updike
-Blindness is a literary masterpiece that displays the sheer breadth of his abilities. Green uses parenthetical statements and an idiosyncratic sentence structure to describe innovative methods of interpretation in a state of blindness. One of the great unsung architects of modernist literature, Green uses the concept of blindness to show that we are inherently blind to the true nature of reality.---Qwiklit Blog
Henry Green was born in 1905 and spent his youth in his family home in the West Country. After his education as Eton and Oxford he worked with his father in an engineering company, but pursued a parallel career as a novelist.
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