by José Saramago · Editorial Caminho · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722105248
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«O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo» is the novel by José Saramago published by Editorial Caminho in paperback (445 pages, in Portuguese).
Heterodox rewriting of the life of Jesus: it shows him human, fearful and trapped in a divine design, with a vengeful God, a generous Judas and a Mary Magdalene with her own presence. Saramago questions the Gospels and reflects on power, sacrifice and the human condition with irony.
Originally published in 1991, it won the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela APE/IPLB and was a finalist for the Dublin Literary Award.
For readers interested in literary reinterpretations of the Gospels and in the work of the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner.
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."
