Caín / Cain

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Caín / Cain by Saramago, José, 9788466362313
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  • ISBN: 9788466362313 | 8466362312
  • Cover: Paperback
  • Copyright: 8/23/2022

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2022: AÑO SARAMAGO

Una novela sobre los efectos negativos de las alianzas entre las religiones y la política.

«Qué diablo de Dios es este que, para enaltecer a Abel, desprecia a Caín».

En Caín, Saramago regresa a los primeros libros de la Biblia. A través de un itinerario heterodoxo, recorre ciudades decadentes y establos, palacios de tiranos y campos de batalla de la mano de los principales protagonistas del Antiguo Testamento, imprimiéndole la música y el humor refinado que caracterizan su obra.

Caín pone de manifiesto lo que hay de moderno y sorprendente en la prosa de Saramago: la capacidad de hacer nueva una historia que se conoce de principio a fin. Una reflexión acerca del origen del poder y de las manipulaciones que las distintas religiones y sus aliados temporales han ejercido sobre las conciencias de los hombres para evitar que el pensamiento sea libre y el uso de la voluntad independiente de criterios religiosos. Una denuncia de los efectos perniciosos de las alianzas entre religiones y política. Se trata, en definitiva, de un alegato contra un Dios que mata y condena a quienes dice haber creado a su imagen y semejanza, y que Caín resuelve de forma sorprendente.

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"Suitably disturbing—and a pleasure to read.” —The Scotsman

In this, his last novel, José Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament, recalling his provocative The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. His tale runs from the Garden of Eden, when God realizes he has forgotten to give Adam and Eve the gift of speech, to the moment when Noah’s Ark lands on the dry peak of Ararat. Cain, the despised, the murderer, is Saramago’s protagonist. 

Condemned to wander forever after he kills his brother Abel, Cain makes his way through the world in the company of a personable donkey. He is a witness to and participant in the stories of Isaac and Abraham, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf, the trials of Job. The rapacious Queen Lilith takes him as her lover. An old man with two sheep on a rope crosses his path. And again and again, Cain encounters a God whose actions seem callous, cruel, and unjust. He confronts Him, he argues with Him. “And one thing we know for certain,” Saramago writes, “is that they continued to argue and are arguing still.” 

A startling book —sensual, funny— in all ways a fitting end to Saramago’s extraordinary career.
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