The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

José Saramago

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For Jose Saramago, the life of Jesus Christ and the story of His Passion are things of this earth. A child crying, a gust of wind, the caress of a woman half-asleep, the bleat of a goat or the bark of a dog, a prayer uttered in the grayish morning light. The adolescent Jesus is very much an adolescent: questioning, uncompromising, troubled by the world and by his body. His mother, like any mother, is devoted, fearful, resentful. The Holy Family has the complex frictions of any family. Yet this is not simple, debunking realism, for Saramago also fills his pages with vision, dream, and omen. And the defiance of the authority of God the Father, the righteous indignation on behalf of man, the anger - is still not denial of Him.

Book Details

Publisher: Mariner Books
Publish Date: Sep 28th, 1994
Pages: 400
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.98in - 5.38in - 0.89in - 0.83lb
EAN: 9780156001410
Categories: • Psychological• Literary• Biographical & Autofiction

About the Author

Saramago, José: -

JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922-2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Praise for this book

"Illuminated by ferocious wit, gentle passion and poetry."--Los Angeles Times Book Review ?"Enough to assure [Saramago] a place in the universal library and in human memory."--The Nation "Fiction that engages the mind as well as the spirit."--Kirkus "Mixes magic, myth, and reality into a potent brew."--Booklist --