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| Title | : | The Gospel According to Jesus Christ |
| Author | : | José Saramago |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 341 pages |
| Published | : | December 26th 1999 by Harvill Press (first published 1991) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Religion. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. European Literature. Portuguese Literature. Cultural. Portugal. Nobel Prize |
José Saramago
Paperback | Pages: 341 pages Rating: 4.29 | 22437 Users | 1362 Reviews
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Jose Saramago is atheist. This should be enough warning for everyone that desires to read the book. It is very explicit and so religion it’s exposed at its weakest and God as a character is revealed. I come from a Roman-Catholic background but I still wanted to read it, ever since the Gnostic gospel where Jesus childhood is revealed and he changes from a mischief bad behave kid to the Jesus from the new testament I wanted to see Saramago’s take on it. Saramago is such a master of words that he makes every bit of faith look totally illogical. It does not take long for us to find out that Saramago is extremely sharp at finding all contradictions on roman-catholic religion. In the novel God seems to be the greediest of all gods, the vainer, the more detach from his people. Detached even from his son as he appeared to him in different shapes, only in the meeting at the lake did he appear to him as a man. God does not command, he orders, he tricks his own son into following his plan to the end. Ultimately Jesus’s betrayal was his last act of martyrdom. The devil is given the name of Pastor. This has caused some confusion for English readers. When I was reading the book with some Jesuits this person contacted them just to let them know (as a good Christian I assume) how blasphemous was to name the devil pastor. It took me 30 minutes to explain that person that Pastor does not means priest, but rather it comes from the Latin word “pastor” meaning shepherd. Now did he use the word shepherd on purpose? Yes, what is the devil but a shepherd of men leading them to hell, just as Jesus is a fisherman of men. In the book Pastor is the most humanitarian, the more repented, so repented that when asked to be forgiven a clear distinction between right and wrong has to be made so God decides not to forgive him because what is a good God without evil? Saramago decides there cannot be one without the other. The characters in the book are fascinating; my Jesuits friends and I laughed and enjoy this book. There were no doubts in our head by the end of the book. We did not feel like it shook our religion or affected the way we perceived God. This book was after all under fiction so everyone that is easily offended stay away from this book and stop complaining about blasphemy and crying around like little kids. Saramago is a Nobel price winner and foremost a grown man that is entitled to his own opinions. This one of his finest, if not the best, of his book in my opinion, a must read.
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| Original Title: | O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo |
| ISBN: | 186046095X (ISBN13: 9781860460951) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Lucifer, God, Jesus, Joseph, Mary |
| Setting: | Nazareth(Israel) Jerusalem(Israel) Bethlehem(Israel) |
| Literary Awards: | Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela APE/IPLB (1991), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (1996) |
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Jose Saramago is atheist. This should be enough warning for everyone that desires to read the book. It is very explicit and so religion its exposed at its weakest and God as a character is revealed. I come from a Roman-Catholic background but I still wanted to read it, ever since the Gnostic gospel where Jesus childhood is revealed and he changes from a mischief bad behave kid to the Jesus from the new testament I wanted to see Saramagos take on it. Saramago is such a master of words that heEarly on, Marys legs were now open, perhaps they had opened by themselves as she dreamed and she did not close them out of this sudden lassitude, or else from the premonition of a married woman who knows her duty [] the holy seed of Joseph poured into the holy womb of Mary (13), sufficiently heretical without the immediate afterthought: there are things God Himself does not understand (id.). Dont worry--this is merely prelude to Jesus & Magdalena: Discover your body, and there it was, tense,
Let's face it, I'm infatuated by the writing of José Saramago, and will continue to read the few novels he wrote that I have not yet had the chance to. Granted, his style takes some getting used to, with the paragraph long sentences, liberal use of commas, and complete lack of conventional standards for dialogue.The book is certainly blasphemous from a purely theological standpoint, as Saramago was an atheist, but make no mistake; this is a towering work of literature. The characters are fleshed
What is great literature but to absolutely despise so many things about a book overall, character development, plot construction, and even so living in the constant realization that in front of your eyes lies the work of a genius? I started this book the way I start every book written by Saramago; expecting to see hatred, bitterness, the wrong amount of pretentious, and every time I come back to his works for sheer amusement. Above all, the truth is that Saramago does to the reader what any
Also posted on my blog:i'mbookedindefinitelyAppreciation of this book dictates that you have to contend with two premises:First: That Saramago's signature writing is characterized by sentences that are paragraphs long occasionally digressing from the thought of the sentence. Second: That this book is about the humanization of Jesus Christ necessarily entailing innumerable repercussions to the orthodox belief of his 'socially' constructed divinity.Of the two, I met with some negligible difficulty
Let me say at the outset that this book will probably be quite a challenge to anyone who holds (and doesnt want to let go) a very traditional, orthodox reading of the traditional gospels in the Christian Testament. What Saramago has done here is to IMAGINE a gospel that places at least equal weight on Jesus as divine AND human. He also IMAGINES God (the Father, that is) who might also be both divine and human (as the ancient Greek gods were, with all their jealousies, rivalries, self-interests,
In this novel Saramago has created a masterpiece, both in terms of style and content.The prose is musical, poetically evocative of the streams of consciousness and conversation that fill our lives. While Saramago's paragraphs often run several pages in length, and his idiosyncratic use of punctuation (e.g., his refusal to use quotation marks to delimit speech and his insistence on ending all sentences--including questions--with a period) can seem daunting, the fluid, melodic language makes
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