Review of 'The good man Jesus and the scoundrel Christ' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
An interesting twist on the Bible stories.
202 pages
Spanish language
Published Dec. 17, 2017
Philip Pullman: El buen Jesús y Cristo el malvado (Spanish language, 2017)
- ISBN:
- 978-84-17125-07-3
- OCLC Number:
- 1014063144
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3 stars
(6 reviews)
"Esta es la historia de Jesús y su hermano Cristo, de cómo nacieron, de cómo vivieron y de cómo murió uno de ellos. La muerte del otro no forma parte de esta historia. Así comienza esta novela ingeniosa y polémica que revisita la historia más influyente de todos los tiempos: la vida de Jesús. Todo comienza cuando la virgen María da a luz a gemelos a los que llama Jesús y Cristo. Los hermanos son muy diferentes entre sí. Mientras que Jesús es carismático, predica la compasión incondicional y condena la hipocresía religiosa, Cristo es un intelectual apocado pero con una determinación: hacer que la palabra de su hermano pase a la historia"--Amazon.com.
"The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is the remarkable new piece of fiction from best-selling and famously atheistic author Philip Pullman. By challenging the events of the gospels, Pullman puts forward his own compelling and …
"Esta es la historia de Jesús y su hermano Cristo, de cómo nacieron, de cómo vivieron y de cómo murió uno de ellos. La muerte del otro no forma parte de esta historia. Así comienza esta novela ingeniosa y polémica que revisita la historia más influyente de todos los tiempos: la vida de Jesús. Todo comienza cuando la virgen María da a luz a gemelos a los que llama Jesús y Cristo. Los hermanos son muy diferentes entre sí. Mientras que Jesús es carismático, predica la compasión incondicional y condena la hipocresía religiosa, Cristo es un intelectual apocado pero con una determinación: hacer que la palabra de su hermano pase a la historia"--Amazon.com.
"The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is the remarkable new piece of fiction from best-selling and famously atheistic author Philip Pullman. By challenging the events of the gospels, Pullman puts forward his own compelling and plausible version of the life of Jesus, and in so doing, does what all great books do: makes the reader ask questions"--Amazon.com.
Review of 'The good man Jesus and the scoundrel Christ' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
What Pullman tries to do (and very largely succeeds, from my point of view) is both celebrate the life of a man who tried to do some actual good and condemn the willful misuse and misinterpretation of his words to better control the masses. As Christ witnesses through his own actions the inevitable corruption that infects any political hierarchy, he begins to doubt his very belief in what he has so long argued for:
"The body of the faithful, the church, as [the stranger:] calls it, will do every kind of good, I hope so, I believe so, I must believe so, and yet I fear it'll do terrible things as well in its zeal and self-righteousness...Under it's authority, Jesus will be distorted and lied about and compromised and betrayed over and over again."
That's a little on the nose, but we are talking parables here, hardly the most subtle …
What Pullman tries to do (and very largely succeeds, from my point of view) is both celebrate the life of a man who tried to do some actual good and condemn the willful misuse and misinterpretation of his words to better control the masses. As Christ witnesses through his own actions the inevitable corruption that infects any political hierarchy, he begins to doubt his very belief in what he has so long argued for:
"The body of the faithful, the church, as [the stranger:] calls it, will do every kind of good, I hope so, I believe so, I must believe so, and yet I fear it'll do terrible things as well in its zeal and self-righteousness...Under it's authority, Jesus will be distorted and lied about and compromised and betrayed over and over again."
That's a little on the nose, but we are talking parables here, hardly the most subtle form of allegory around. The entire novel is presented in a similar tone, simple yet laden with meaning, not an easy effect that Pullman somehow pulls off.
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Subjects
- Ficción
- Fiction
- Novela biográfica
- Novela histórica