The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2020
- With comprehensive knowledge of Roman and Jewish history, innovative exegeses of the Tanakh, and beyond the pale philosophical inquiries, José Saramago, the Patron Saint of Ironists, creates a life of Jesus of Nazareth-from his undocumented early years to the everyday occurrences which make any human being who they are-both wholly believable and undoubtedly provocative to anyone willing to read it.
He is Portuguese
Great review man, you've got a new subscriber.
Just finished reading the book a few minutes ago. Absolutely floored - an amazing, thought-provoking novel.
00:22 - He is Portuguese, not Spanish! He lived in Spain (Lanzarote) for part of his life and married a Spaniard, but he is Portuguese. He is the only Portuguese Nobel so please get that right. ;-) otherwise great review. I read all his books and they’re all brilliant.
I know he was Portuguese! I just made a flub lol thanks for the comment!
Only Portuguese Nobel?What about Moniz?
@@oxarim we don't talk about him
@@percymooncashwhy not?
@@oxarim he got the Nobel prize because he invented the precursor of lobotomies as a treatment for mental illness... not very pride-inducing
He is Portuguese nothing to do with spanish writers.
Wow! Thanks a lot. I've been looking for a Gospel review in English and was surprised by the few number and lack of quality. You really get it! Imho the book is a truly masterpiece. I did',t expect too much, because Saramago was that kind of atheist who seems always angry with God, not my type of atheism 🙂. But never forget the 1st reading and the huge shock. Highly recommend everyone to read, at least, the chapter of God, Jesus and the Devil on the boat, far beyond geniality. You look surprised by the name Pastor, but in Portuguese we use the same word both in common and biblical sense. And don't worry, he was not extradited, we don't do that kind of things.
Technically he was a Portuguese author more than a Spanish author. We could settle for Iberian.
Great, but he was Portuguese!, not Spanish 😂😂
Excellent review, thanks! The book is definitely a masterpiece, I was so amazed by it I immediately started to read it again after finishing. I watched many reviews that were so disappointing, too superficial and didn't grasp the complexity of the book. You did a great job
good review! agree--great book/author. the Kafkaesque All The Names was even more memorable for me.
I've owned a copy of this novel for a while as well as the Saramago's book 'Blindness'. Read neither yet but hope to read Blindness soon. I was literally just Googling this book and happened to come across your review.
You should read both Blindness and The Gospel According to Jesus Christ! Saramago is a genius! I’m about to tackle his novel “The Cave.” Hopefully I’ll do a review of it when I finish it!
Thanks for your feedback!
great video man!
Hey man, great review. Just one thing, I don't think he wasn't expelled from Portugal or anything quite as dramatic but Parliment refused to back this book for prizes in Europe due to it's anti catholic message. In the words of our secretary of education of the time "as a country with a cultural origin in christian judaism we cannot support this book". That guy was my professor and he descried his political orientation as a mixture of Nazism, Fascism and portuguese Corporativism (the fascist dictatorship over here).
Hi, just finished the book and I came to see if there was any video about this book in english, your video was the only one I found and I loved.
Saramago is amazing, he is the only writer that wrote in portuguese to win a nobel prize (it makes me sad that people thinks he is spanish). His style is really unique, I have a lot of difficulty Reading his books, but they are so ironic and intense that I can't stop reading.
I recommend you a documentary about saramago, it's called josé e pillar( it's on youtube with english subtitles)
If you want a recommendation of portuguese language books just ask me
Greetings from Brazil and sorry for my english.
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I'm so sorry to say this, but no way this book is a work of genius as you put it. The irony throughout this novel is so badly cheap, fixated, banal and profane. This book is nothing more than committed literature, and this kind of art is always bad art. And what about the innumerable bad jokes such as: "Goliath would have been a basketball player"? Come on! What is this? Is this great literature? Should this be a novel written by a great writer? The whole book is nothing more than a caricature without any trace of spirituality or of any deeper and profounder meaning. I was so exited to read this book after having read Kazantzakis's true masterpiece "The Last Temptation of Christ", in order to see how these two authors handle their common subject matter; but unfortunately I was so disappointed with this one. No. No way. It was just a waste of time reading this novel and I'm so sorry for that. If you want to read something truly great, which is also greatly written (Saramago's writing style is nothing else than mediocre), then read Kazantzakis. That's an author and a truly great book.