Glory (La gloria) is Giuseppe Berto’s testamentary novel. The first-person narration of the Gospel in the voice of Judas Iscariot constitutes Berto’s closing argument in a life-long debate with Christianity. His interpretation of the gospel story is certainly unconventional, even oppositional. Rather than a rejection of the Christian faith in which he was raised and educated, however, Berto fashions an alternative account to the four canonical gospels that ultimately constructs a competing view of the human condition and of humanity’s prospects for redemption.
In Berto’s parodic rendition of the Christian gospel, Judas, after a lifetime of tormented interrogation, decides to embrace the ambiguity of the human condition, which is, as he describes it, a liminal existence played out over a long and trying transition of unknown and unknowable duration, between the original paradise of the Garden of Eden and the final redemption at the end of days--a period otherwise known as history.
Glory: The Gospel of Judas, a Novel
- 作者： Berto, Giuseppe
- 譯者： Conti, Gregory
- 出版日期： 2024-03-29
- ISBN碼： 9781978839571
- 編號： F01a155070
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