Blindness

The premise of the book is interesting. I remember seeing a part of the movie when I was a kid but I didn't really understand what was going on. Now I'm reading the actual book and the one thing that threw me off was the dialogue and characters. The dialogue doesn't have any quotation marks and it's not separated from the rest of the text. It's like a stream of consciousness and it was hard at first to understand which character was saying what. I grew to appreciate it though because the cluttered and chaotic writing style sort of mirrors what's going on in the book. People are confused. There's a plague of blindness going around and it's causing chaos and discord among the population. The writing style reflects that. It's jumbled and all over the place.The decision not to give the characters any names though seems weird to me. On the blurb in the back it says Blindness is a "powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites". It's kind of hard to see that when I can't really sympathize with these characters.I understand that the book does show the worst of humanity but for now the character interactions to me don't seem very genuine. Giving a character something as simple as a name can humanize them. We can visualize them and maybe even relate with them. It's hard to relate to characters who are only referred to as the doctor or the thief. Maybe the book will prove me wrong though. I'm sure it gets better as it goes along and it'll get to a point where I won't even care about characters not having any names.