The Lizard
  • Published: 3 December 2019
  • ISBN: 9781609809331
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 24
  • RRP: $35.00

The Lizard

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A story by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago, gorgeously illustrated in woodcuts by one of Brazil's most famous artists.

A story by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago, gorgeously illustrated in woodcuts by one of Brazil's most famous artists.

When a lizard appears in the neighborhood of Chiado, in Lisbon, it surprises passers-by, and mobilizes firefighters and the army. With a clear and precise style, the fable offers a multitude of senses, reaching audiences of all ages. "The Lizard" is a short story included in A Bagagem do Viajante (1973), a volume that brought together the Saramago chronicles for the newspaper A Capital and the weekly Jornal do Fundão between 1971 and 1972. Translated by Nick Caistor and Lucia Caistor, The Lizard, is an illustrated version of the chronicle by J. Borges.
  • Published: 3 December 2019
  • ISBN: 9781609809331
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 24
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

Jose Saramago

José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.

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Praise for The Lizard

"J. Borges' illustrations underline enchantment: they continue to refer, without shame or fear, to a magical universe that can no longer exist. As in the paintings of Brueghel, they are the last remaining traces of a possible magic realm--not that of fairies, but of ordinary mankind, in an epoch that insists on imposing on us the medieval cliché of darkness." --Bernardo Carvalho