The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Download or read book The Gospel According to Jesus Christ written by José Saramago and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil – a kindly and necessary evil – but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth. ‘An original, wild and beautiful book’ Times Literary Supplement