Cain

R$ 66,90

Sinopse

A controversial book in the mode of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and the last novel to be written before the death of the great Portuguese novelist and Nobel Prize winner, Jose Saramago.Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate José Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, he has done it again with Cain, a satire of the Old Testament. Written in the last years of Saramago's life, it tackles many of the moral and logical non sequiturs created by a wilful, authoritarian God, and forms part of Saramago's long argument with religion.The stories in this book are witty and provocative. After Adam and Eve have been cast out of Eden, Eve decides to go back and ask the angel guarding the gate if he can give her some of the fruit that is going to waste inside. The angel agrees, and although Eve swears to Adam that she offered the angel nothing in return, their first child is suspiciously blond and fair-skinned. Cain, in his wandering, overhears a strange conversation between a man named Abraham and his son Isaac - and manages to prevent the father from murdering the son. The angel appointed by God to prevent the murder arrives late due to a wing malfunction. Cain brushes off his apology. 'What would have happened if I hadn't been here?' Cain asks, 'and what kind of god would ask a father to sacrifice his own son?'

Participantes

Autor: Jose Saramago

Tradutor: Margaret Jull Costa

Autor

JOSE SARAMAGO

José Saramago nasceu em 1922, na província do Ribatejo, em Portugal. Devido a dificuldades econômicas foi obrigado a interromper os estudos secundários, tendo a partir de então exercido diversas atividades profissionais: serralheiro mecânico, desenhista, funcionário público, editor, jornalista, entre outras. Seu primeiro livro foi publicado em 1947. A partir de 1976 passou a viver exclusivamente da literatura, primeiro como tradutor, depois como autor. Romancista, teatrólogo e poeta, em 1998 tornou-se o primeiro autor de língua portuguesa a receber o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura