The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
By (Author) Jos Saramago
Vintage Publishing
The Harvill Press
1st August 2002
2nd September 1999
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Historical fiction
Religious and spiritual fiction
869.342
Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1996
Physical Properties
Paperback
368
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 24mm
259g
Description
Saramago's ingenious fictionalised account of the life of Jesus Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil - a kindly and necessary evil - but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth. 'An original, wild and beautiful book' Times Literary Supplement
Reviews
Profound and poignant * Independent *
An original, wild and beautiful book * Times Literary Supplement *
Author Bio
Jose 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.
