All the Light We Cannot See

Blindness in Anthony Doerr's "All the Light We Cannot See"

The concept of utilizing the loss of one's vision to depict greater meaning is not infrequent within literature as a whole. Another renowned piece of fictional literature exploring blindness as a literary theme is Anthony Doerr's "All the Light We Cannot See".  

In Blindness, the fictional "white blindness" is responsible for the collapse of society to which Saramago then uses to articulate philosophical themes and commentary. In contrast, Doerr uses blindness as a form of disability with which the inflicted character, Marie-Laure, must overcome during wartime Paris in order to demonstrate character development.