The main character and narrator of Blind Man is a successful book
editor and critic with severely impaired vison, although he has never
had much to do with the visually impaired community and doesn't really
feel like he is one of them. But when he is offered a chance to enter
the world of politics, he is "blinded" by the lure of power, and this
easy-going, level-headed husband and soon-to-be father gradually turns
into a self-absorbed careerist.
Author Mitja Čander, without pontificating and with a measured dose of
humour, paints a critical, unsparing portrait of a small European
country and through it a convincing satire on the psychological state of
contemporary European society. What, or who, do we still believe in
today, and who should we trust? Politicians, apparatchiks, the media?
Speeches laden with buzzwords and grandiose promises break down the
flimsy façade, as the protagonist's own insecurity suggests that things
are not always what they seem. In the end, social blindness is worse
than any physical impairment, and worst of all is to be blinded by your
own ego.