Invisible

The impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence, leading to a profound meditation on what it means to see and be seen ''You live in a city like New York. You read the papers. You look at the television. But you never think it will happen to you. It happened to me one evening''.

One summer night in 1978, Hugues de Montalembert returned home to his New York City a...