I am on page 149  and similar to Ky's post, I've also had some trouble deciphering who's speaking when and to whom because of the lack of quotations and formal sentences. Another style of José Saramago's writing that has interested me so far is the absence of identification in this novel. None of the characters are given actual names, instead its "the doctor" or "the doctor's wife." Additionally, the city in which this mass blindness epidemic is occurring is very vague and mysterious. As I think about it more, it seems as though Saramago chooses to leave out places and names to provoke thoughts in his readers that what is happening to the people in the city in this novel could happen anywhere, and to anyone. Saramago's point of how fear and tragedy can change people and turn them into animalistic barbarians seems to be well expressed through this vague style of writing.