Saramago’s posthumous book will be released in Brazil in October – A Tarde On Line

 “Pikes, halberds! Rifles, Shotguns!” Romance against trafficking in arms, is the posthumous Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago published on Tuesday in his hometown and will be released on 1 and 27 October in Spain and Brazil respectively.

 Pilar del Río, his widow and translator for Spanish, told EFE that the book of Saramago (1922-2010) is a message from “violence, war and barbarism” in a world where increasingly more presence weapons, both in Europe and in Latin America and the Middle East.

 “We publish the texts as they were,” said Spanish journalist, who argued that the chapters left by the writer as an account work perfectly.

 “Pikes, halberds! Rifles, Shotguns”, extracted from the title of a verse Portuguese playwright Gil Vicente, is an unfinished book that the author began in late 2009 and gave a result in February 2010.

 However, four months later, Saramago died on the island of Lanzarote (Canary, Spain) at 87 years.

 The work of the first and only Portuguese-speaking writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1998) is 130 pages.

 The text, which shows the absurdity in which humans often engage, moreover account with illustrations of the German Nobel laureate Günter Grass and an afterword by the Spanish poet and essayist Fernando Gómez Aguilera, an expert in the work of Portuguese writer.

 “Pikes, halberds! Rifles, Shotguns!” asks the contradictions between a man obsessed with guns and a woman who loathes.

 Both, who are husband and wife, living a plot with others related to the world of the weapons industry and its characters.

 The book will be officially presented on October 2 in Lisbon.

 Above all, the goal of this release is to make a statement against “barbarism” and the war, said Del Rio.

 Saramago, author of novels like “Blindness” (1995) or “The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis” (1984), also promoted the José Saramago Foundation, created in 2007 to assume, both in letter and spirit, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

 The Portuguese writer born in the village of Azinhaga in 1922 published his first book, “Land of Sin” in 1947, and also cultivated other genres as essay, short stories and articles

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