by José Saramago · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432206665
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«El evangelio según Jesucristo» is the contemporary fiction novel by José Saramago, published by Seix Barral in paperback (344 pages, in Spanish).
Novel that reinterprets the life of Jesus from a human and sceptical perspective, far removed from the canonical gospels. The narrative follows the protagonist through his childhood and youth, his encounter with God and his relationship with Mary Magdalene, and offers a critical view of religion, guilt and the power of the Church.
Translation from the Portuguese by Basilio Losada. Original work «O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo», published in 1991; this Spanish edition, from the Biblioteca Breve collection, dates from 1992.
For readers interested in a critical and literary revision of the gospels and in the narrative of Nobel Prize winner 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."
