The literary blindness: eyes, ears and skin amongst processes and experiences of reading

Abstract

Based on a report of this researcher’s own personal experience, this work aims to show an overview of
the many paths already taken by the literary reading, ever since its origins in the primary orality time,
until nowadays, when we are concerned about concepts such as information era and digital revolutions. In this context, the written text is found as malleable as it is abstract, on the various devices
screens. Thus, from the consideration of the many means this researcher needed to adapt in order to
assimilate written texts, given his process of visual impairment that culminated in a total blindness
condition, it is offered a discussion about the nature of the writing, about how the written texts have
already been accessible, as well as about how it is accessible now. How many possibilities the visually
impaired have to enjoy the literary art, when facing the absence of a sense that has been so prioritized
ever since the modern press advent.