Blindness. Kanetti E.

Kanetti’s most famous novel “blinding” was waiting for a difficult fate: his publication in Vienna in 1935 remained unnoticed by anyone, and only gaining fame in England and America, he returned to German literature, where he occupied a special place as a successor to Kafka and Kafka's traditions and Joyce.

The protagonist-synologist Peter Kin, leads a closed lifestyle in his library and tries to minimize contacts with society, devoting all the time to the study of Chinese literary monuments. But once, seduced by his housekeeper, Kin is forced to face reality and the outside world, which he is so afraid of...