More so he’s asking readers to allow room to be human in their faith, doing so with respect, emotion, and wicked humor. Saramago doesn’t seem to be questioning anyone’s faith. God did what to whom just because he/she did so & so? Well that seems a little extreme. Instead, Saramago seems to use Cain’s position as an outsider to look at stories from the Old Testement with a perspective of a modern thinking man.

I could understand a man’s coming to terms with faith so near his death, but this doesn’t seem to be such. This seems a strange story to be told by such a seasoned and well respected author so late in his career and life ( Cain would be Saramago’s last book before his death in 2010). Is this novella a re-telling? A re-interpretation? A biblical sci-fi adventure? It’s hard to tell, but that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable. La fábula que este caso nos presenta está basada en el Génesis y se centra en la vida de Caín y, naturalmente, su familia. In his latest novel, Can, Saramago rewrites the biblical story of Cain and Abel. (2009) Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate Jos Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel The Gospel According to Jesus. José Saramago es un escritor imaginativo, fabulador, capaz de crear alegorías sin que falte el ritmo narrativo que mantenga atento al lector. Placing the despised murderer Cain in the role of. Instead of just wandering, Cain time travels to witness different events in the Old Testament. Download Citation Can (review) Jos Saramago (1922-2010) was a. In Jos Saramagos final novel, he daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament.

A synopsis would tell you Cain (of Cain and Abel fame) after murdering his brother is sent to wander the rest of his life in exile. I’m not entirely sure what Jose Saramago’s Cain is.

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