by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420416007
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In 'Alabardas', José Saramago presents the story of Artur Paz Semedo, an employee of an arms factory who becomes involved in a moral conflict. Intrigued by a sabotage during the Spanish Civil War and driven by his ex-wife, Artur begins an investigation that leads him to question the blindness imposed by fear and the need for commitment. This unfinished novel is a reflection on power, destruction, and the search for peace as the only way to break with violence. This special edition includes illustrations by Günter Grass and texts by Roberto Saviano and Fernando Gómez Aguilera.
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
