Cain - Couverture rigide

Saramago, José

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0547419899 ISBN 13 : 9780547419893

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Saramago Jose

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

“Suitably disturbing—and a pleasure to read.” — The Scotsman

In this, his last novel, José Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament, recalling his provocative The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. His tale runs from the Garden of Eden, when God realizes he has forgotten to give Adam and Eve the gift of speech, to the moment when Noah’s Ark lands on the dry peak of Ararat. Cain, the despised, the murderer, is Saramago’s protagonist.

Condemned to wander forever after he kills his brother Abel, Cain makes his way through the world in the company of a personable donkey. He is a witness to and participant in the stories of Isaac and Abraham, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf, the trials of Job. The rapacious Queen Lilith takes him as her lover. An old man with two sheep on a rope crosses his path. And again and again, Cain encounters a God whose actions seem callous, cruel, and unjust. He confronts Him, he argues with Him. “And one thing we know for certain,” Saramago writes, “is that they continued to argue and are arguing still.”

A startling book—sensual, funny—in all ways a fitting end to Saramago’s extraordinary career.

Quatrième de couverture

‘Suitably disturbing and a pleasure to read’ Scotsman

After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever. He witnesses Noah's ark, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf. He is there in time to save Abraham from sacrificing Isaac when God's angel arrives late after a wing malfunction. Written in the last years of Saramago's life, Cain wittily tackles many of the moral and logical non sequiturs created by a wilful, authoritarian God, forming part of Saramago's long argument with God and recalling his provocative novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.

See also: Raised from the Ground

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0547419899
• ISBN 13: 9780547419893
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 176