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by José Saramago (1991)

Here’s a gospel where Jesus is a very common human being without a priori divinity if confused, pessimistic and guilt-ridden, an unwilling “restive lamb that resists being taken to be sacrificed, becomes agitated and bleats in the most heart-rending manner” to his sealed destiny. In a manner of the Anti-Hero, he is unsure of himself, plagued with nightmares and guilt passed down by his deceased father, aghast at the power he chanelled and at the inescapable covenant with this power-hungry, indifferent God.