NMLP P-016962 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Blindness

José Saramago · The Harvill Press (London) · 1997

The English true first is The Harvill Press, London, 1997, in the Pontiero translation; the first American edition (Harcourt Brace, New York) is 1998. The Portuguese 'Ensaio sobre a cegueira' (Caminho, Lisbon, 1995) is the true first in any language.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-016962 for "Blindness" by José Saramago (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-016962, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).