Avaliação por pares: pareceres lúcidos e comentários cegos

The academic field requires scholars to carry out, in their stricto sensu postgraduate programs, individual or collective research, and present it in officially active journals. These, governed by the rigors of academia, follow similar premises in the evaluation of submitted articles, including double-blind peer review. Supported by the methodology of retextualization—which makes it possible to discuss texts from one sphere (the scientific) through texts from another sphere (the literary, in this case)—, this article gives rise to a reflection, based on the novel Ensaio sobre a cegueira, by José Saramago, about the insufficiency of opinions and the idiosyncrasy of reviewers.