by José Saramago · Punto de Lectura S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466318457
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«El Evangelio según Jesucristo» is the novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (496 pages, in Spanish).
A fictional recreation of the life of Jesus that presents a worldly vision far from the canonical gospels: the weight of guilt on Joseph for not warning of Herod's massacre, Jesus's love with Mary Magdalene, encounters with angels and demons, and the anguish of deciphering his mission before God.
The novel was originally published in 1991; this Punto de Lectura edition is from 2006. José Saramago received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
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."
