A work of remarkable imagination and insight; never before has such an extraordinary description of what it is to be blind been written. Guibert writes about the blind with virtuosity, entering into their minds and bodies and "seeing" the inner and outer worlds of their confined existence. This produces a strange penetration into hallucinated sensual confusion, in which colors are sounds and sounds are objects. These nightmarish phantasms of the blind culminate in a gruesome crime de passion.
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A work of remarkable imagination and insight; never before has such an extraordinary description of what it is to be blind been written. Guibert writes about the blind with virtuosity, entering into their minds and bodies and "seeing" the inner and outer worlds of their confined existence. This produces a strange penetration into hallucinated sensual confusion, in which colors are sounds and sounds are objects. These nightmarish phantasms of the blind culminate in a gruesome crime de passion.
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