In the canon
The Country of the Blind
- Form
- Form Short Story
- Year
- Year 1904
- Pages
- Pages 40
In the Country of the Blind the One-Eyed Man is King: Nunez goes over the lip of an Andean snowfield with that proverb already forming, and lands in the one valley where it is worth nothing. Fourteen generations of blindness have built a civilisation of touch and hearing so complete that its houses need no windows, its paths are read by kerb and scent, and its people cross the dark faster than he can stumble after them.
In the Country of the Blind the One-eyed Man is King.
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