Blindness

Elias Canetti (1905–1994) — Austrian and British writer, cultural theorist, and social thinker, one of the key figures of European modernism in the 20th century. In 1981, Elias Canetti was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature with the formulation "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas, and artistic power." The novel "Blindness" remained his only major artistic work, but it was this grand literary manifesto that brought the author worldwide recognition and secured his status as a classic of world literature.

The authoritative philologist-sinologist and owner of a vast personal library, Peter Kin, leads a reclusive lifestyle. He is completely immersed in his work, and his entire life is governed by discipline and order. But the day comes when the professor has to plunge into the chaos of the real world and make a surprising discovery: Confucian wisdom is helpless against the cynical bourgeois conspiracy and banal greed…