![]() (By the way, Saramago doesn’t capitalize names or use quote marks in the book.) ![]() Or this, when Abraham is asked to sacrifice his son, Isaac: “The logical, natural and simply human response would have been for abraham to tell the lord to piss off, but that isn’t what happened.” “What’s diarrhea, asked the angel, Another word for it is the runs, the vocabulary the lord taught us has a word for everything, having diarrhea or the runs, if you prefer that term, means that you can’t retain the shit you have inside you.” Through it all, Saramago offers some wry observations – such as when Eve complains about having diarrhea. After the murder, Cain witnesses historical events from the Bible – the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the creation of the golden calf and the construction of Noah’s Ark. The late Portuguese’s last novel, Cain, released last month, tells some of the stories of the Bible from the perspective of Adam and Eve’s son, Cain, who killed his brother, Abel, out of jealousy. Nobel Prize winner José Saramago is known for his dark words such as Blindness. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |