by José Saramago · Circulo de Lectores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422642497
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«El evangelio según Jesucristo» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (425 pages, in Spanish).
The novel recreates the life of Jesus from a heterodox perspective: it shows him as an ordinary man who doubts and fears before a powerful God, and turns the gospel narrative into an ironic parable about faith, guilt and the power of the Church.
Translation from the Portuguese by Basilio Losada, published in 1992. Won the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela APE/IPLB 1991; shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 1996.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in the literary revision of religious myths and in the work of the Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago.
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."
