Cain

What a devil of God is this who, to exalt Abel, despises Cain. His most surprising and controversial novel. Saramago gave us a crude and humorous parody of the government of Heaven. If José Saramago gave us his vision of the New Testament in The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, in Cain he returns to the first books of the Bible. In a heterodox itinerary, he travels through decadent cities and stables, tyrants' palaces and battlefields hand in hand with the main protagonists of the Old Testament, imprinting on him the music and refined humor that characterize his work. Cain reveals what is modern and surprising in Saramago's prose: the ability to make a new story that is known from start to finish. An ironic and scathing tour in which the reader witnesses a secular war, and in a certain way, involuntary, between the creator and his creature.