by José Saramago, Basilio Losada · Punto De Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466300650
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«El Evangelio según Jesucristo» is the novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (478 pages, in Spanish).
A novel that rewrites the life of Jesus from a human and critical perspective, dwelling on the episodes the gospels barely mention. Saramago questions traditional interpretations of the sacred and portrays a distant God who demands blood and death, in a reflection on faith, power and suffering.
Work originally published in 1991 as «O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo»; this Spanish edition appeared in 2000. José Saramago received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
For readers of literary fiction interested in historical or religious reinterpretations of the Gospels and in Saramago's work.
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."
