Unpublished novel by José Saramago arrives in bookstores today – Reuters

First chapters of the novel include notes that the author did when he began writing.
 

The Unfinished José Saramago “pikes, halberds, rifles, shotguns,” romance arrives today at bookstores, today announced that Porto Editora seal the work. Earlier this month, presenting the editorial plan for 2014/15 the editor Manuel Alberto Valente stressed the “witness committed” the unpublished and unfinished book by José Saramago, as an example of “growing” investment Porto Editora, in the publication of Portuguese authors .

In July, when the president of the Foundation José Saramago, Pilar del Río, announced Blimunda magazine, the publication of the work, said this represented a “repudiation of violence.” “Few chapters, but the theme is clear, the text has unity,” explained Pilar del Río, Spanish translator for the work of the Portuguese Nobel. The first chapters of the novel include notes that the author did when he began writing.

“In them, José Saramago anticipates the progress and the outcome of the story he intended to tell,” said in a statement the José Saramago Foundation. “Pikes, halberds, rifles, shotguns,” title inspired in some verses of Gil Vicente, has as protagonist employee of a weapons factory who lives a moral conflict arising from their work, explains the same source.

José Saramago, who died in June 2010 on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, published, among other works, “The Stone Raft”, “Raised from the Ground”, “The Double”, “Blindness” and the initial romance ” Skylight “, published posthumously, in 2011 the author was awarded several national and international awards such as the Grand Prix Romance Novel and the Portuguese Association of Writers, the Camões Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.