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Both blind, Josette and Robert live together in the Institute - a home and school for the blind. One morning, Josette is called into the director's office where she is assailed by an odor she has never before encountered. It emanates from Taillegueur (Tiger) who the director has just hired as a masseur for the Institute. Brutal, massive, and savage, Taillegueur sets off a cycle of lust, infidelity, and revenge that culminates in a gruesome crime de passion. Like Nosferatu the Vampire and other strange films Josette and Robert enjoy, Blindsight is a tale of gothic horror. Guibert writes about the blind with virtuosity, entering their minds and bodies and "seeing" the inner and outer worlds of their confined existence. For the sighted reader this produces a strange, hallucinated sensual confusion, in which colors are sounds and sounds are objects.

"An intense short novel....Hothouse-urbane, and not for every taste--though all should appreciate the brilliant pun that proves the novel's English title."

Bruce Allen, Kirkus, 07/01/1996

"Guibert imaginatively re-creates the world of the blind, which adds to the eeriness of this weird novella. If you are attracted to the idea of a Poe tale cast with blind people, you might enjoy 'Blindsight'. Veteran translator James Kirkup uses British diction but otherwise skillfully conveys Guibert's often baroque prose."

Steven Moore, Washington Post Book World, 12/22/1996

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