Blindness Jose Saramago

A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose this distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilised society are snapped. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Blindness (Jose Saramago)