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Title: Cain
Author: Jose Saramago
Narrator: Jay Villiers
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-07-11
Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
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 Saramagos life, it tackles many of the moral and logical non sequiturs created by a wilful, authoritarian God, and forms part of Saramagos 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 hadnt been here? Cain asks, and what kind of god would ask a father to sacrifice his own son? Saramago died in June 2010, shortly after the controversial Portuguese publication of Cain but before he could participate in its publication in other countries. Harvill Seckers edition of this remarkable book will be part of a tribute to Saramagos life and work which includes the gradual reissue of his previous novels as Vintage Classics.
Members Reviews:
Chuckles Amidst Despair
A cynical walk through Genesis with all the pitfalls of taking the Scriptures literally, especially its depictions of God. There are some very funny insights, however. Even the pious will have to giggle at some of the absurdities as the character of Cain travels through a kind of time warp to encounter Abraham, Lot, Noah and others, challenging a deity who allows evil to coexist with good. Mr. Saramago's satire shows compassion for Cain and his plight but his unnuanced anger toward God becomes exasperating. It's the old anti-theodicy issue without any new insights. Biblical scholars and serious students know very well that Genesis/Exodus depictions of God represent humanity's early stages in understanding God. These concepts evolve throughout the Bible to depict God as far more caring than the tit-for-tat, rewarding/ punishing God in the more ancient biblical passages. Cain and Saramago would have to enter into the insights of the Prophets and Wisdom portions of the Bible to gain and present a more honest conversation with God and readers.
an excellent final note
In short a powerful book, and wonderfully concise, which I consider quite a compliment for Saramago in that some of his books that I've actually liked (ie, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ or Seeing) seem to test my patience at times, though Saramago was good at delivering in these works. But this one seems to do in sharp strokes what Gospel did in sin waves: pointed examinations of the troublesome applications of rigid religiosity. Cain. Of course, is our hero, a killer whom God cannot thoroughly punish, doomed to find himself outside Jericho or Sodom, where God's wrath seems a little more self-serving rather than just. Cain becomes the ultimate cynic, a man flawed and carrying the weight (and mark) of his own crime, but struggling with the crimes of the world around him.
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Title: Cain
Author: Jose Saramago
Narrator: Jay Villiers
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-07-11
Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
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 Saramagos life, it tackles many of the moral and logical non sequiturs created by a wilful, authoritarian God, and forms part of Saramagos 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 hadnt been here? Cain asks, and what kind of god would ask a father to sacrifice his own son? Saramago died in June 2010, shortly after the controversial Portuguese publication of Cain but before he could participate in its publication in other countries. Harvill Seckers edition of this remarkable book will be part of a tribute to Saramagos life and work which includes the gradual reissue of his previous novels as Vintage Classics.
Members Reviews:
Chuckles Amidst Despair
A cynical walk through Genesis with all the pitfalls of taking the Scriptures literally, especially its depictions of God. There are some very funny insights, however. Even the pious will have to giggle at some of the absurdities as the character of Cain travels through a kind of time warp to encounter Abraham, Lot, Noah and others, challenging a deity who allows evil to coexist with good. Mr. Saramago's satire shows compassion for Cain and his plight but his unnuanced anger toward God becomes exasperating. It's the old anti-theodicy issue without any new insights. Biblical scholars and serious students know very well that Genesis/Exodus depictions of God represent humanity's early stages in understanding God. These concepts evolve throughout the Bible to depict God as far more caring than the tit-for-tat, rewarding/ punishing God in the more ancient biblical passages. Cain and Saramago would have to enter into the insights of the Prophets and Wisdom portions of the Bible to gain and present a more honest conversation with God and readers.
an excellent final note
In short a powerful book, and wonderfully concise, which I consider quite a compliment for Saramago in that some of his books that I've actually liked (ie, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ or Seeing) seem to test my patience at times, though Saramago was good at delivering in these works. But this one seems to do in sharp strokes what Gospel did in sin waves: pointed examinations of the troublesome applications of rigid religiosity. Cain. Of course, is our hero, a killer whom God cannot thoroughly punish, doomed to find himself outside Jericho or Sodom, where God's wrath seems a little more self-serving rather than just. Cain becomes the ultimate cynic, a man flawed and carrying the weight (and mark) of his own crime, but struggling with the crimes of the world around him.