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  • Published: 20 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448129515
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ




Saramago's ingenious fictionalised account of the life of Jesus

Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil – a kindly and necessary evil – but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth.

‘An original, wild and beautiful book’ Times Literary Supplement

  • Published: 20 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448129515
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

About the author

José Saramago

JOSÉ DE SOUSA SARAMAGO, (November 1922 - June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. He was a founding member of the National Front for the Defense of Culture in Lisbon in 1992, and co-founder with Orhan Pamuk, of the European Writers' Parliament (EWP).

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