by José Saramago · Alfaguara, Ediciones, S.A.- Grupo Santillana · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420400396
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«El Evangelio según Jesucristo» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in hardback (446 pages, in Spanish).
El Evangelio según Jesucristo rewrites the life of Jesus from a human and critical perspective: Saramago delves into the silences of the Gospels and into the least-narrated episodes to interrogate God, the Church and the foundations of Christian culture. The narrative does not dismiss the sacred, but subjects it to a passionate questioning.
This novel by José Saramago was originally published in Portuguese in 1991 as O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo; this Spanish-language edition is a translation by Basilio Losada. Saramago received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in a critical and philosophical perspective on Christianity.
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."
