by José Saramago · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429747447
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ is a novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago, published in 1991. The novel offers an alternative interpretation of the life of Jesus Christ, exploring his humanity and questioning religious institutions. The work has been praised for its literary style and its provocative reflection on faith and power.
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."
