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Title	:	Caim
Author	:	José Saramago
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 184 pages
Published	:	October 19th 2009 by Editorial Caminho (first published October 18th 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Religion. European Literature. Portuguese Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction

Caim Paperback | Pages: 184 pages

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Neste novo romance, o vencedor do prêmio Nobel José Saramago reconta episódios bíblicos do Velho Testamento sob o ponto de vista de Caim, que, depois de assassinar seu irmão, trava um incomum acordo com deus e parte numa jornada que o levará do jardim do Éden aos mais recônditos confins da criação. Se, em O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo, José Saramago nos deu sua visão do Novo Testamento, neste Caim ele se volta aos primeiros livros da Bíblia, do Éden ao dilúvio, imprimindo ao Antigo Testamento a música e o humor refinado que marcam sua obra. Num itinerário heterodoxo, Saramago percorre cidades decadentes e estábulos, palácios de tiranos e campos de batalha, conforme o leitor acompanha uma guerra secular, e de certo modo involuntária, entre criador e criatura. No trajeto, o leitor revisitará episódios bíblicos conhecidos, mas sob uma perspectiva inteiramente diferente. Para atravessar esse caminho árido, um deus às turras com a própria administração colocará Caim, assassino do irmão Abel e primogênito de Adão e Eva, num altivo jegue, e caberá à dupla encontrar o rumo entre as armadilhas do tempo que insistem em atraí-los. A Caim, que leva a marca do senhor na testa e portanto está protegido das iniquidades do homem, resta aceitar o destino amargo e compactuar com o criador, a quem não reserva o melhor dos julgamentos. Tal como o diabo de O Evangelho, o deus que o leitor encontra aqui não é o habitual dos sermões: ao reinventar o Antigo Testamento, Saramago recria também seus principais protagonistas, dando a eles uma roupagem ao mesmo tempo complexa e irônica, cujo tom de farsa da narrativa só faz por acentuar.

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Original Title:	Caim
ISBN:	972212076X (ISBN13: 9789722120760)
Edition Language:	Portuguese
Literary Awards:	Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura Nominee (2010)

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We all know that Cain was the firstborn of Adam and Eve. He was a farmer and he killed Abel, the first human to die, because of jealousy due to later being more favored by God. That made him the first human murderer and he was condemned by God and made him roam the earth forever. This book, the last book completed by Nobel laureate Jose de Suosa Saramago (1922-2010) before his death, Cain is about him and his journey after the killing. Like Forrest Gump, the wandering Cain of Saramago witnessed

I've just read some pages, and I surely can envision much to come, of the same. It starts quoting Hebrews 11:4. By faith, Abel offered God a sacrifice.and by faith Abel, though dead, still speaks". A quote from the Book of "rubbish/non-sense", according to Saramago. An imperfect Creation, that's the main issue: (1) God got aware later that Adam and Eve (in the book: adam and eve) didnt speak: so God made a tongue (both the muscle and the idiom); afterwards the creation. (2) God corrected later a

Another great book from the Nobel-prize-winning (1998) Portuguese author. Its a re-imagining of the Old Testament (which the author has called the Book of Nonsense) in the way that the authors The Gospel According to Jesus Christ re-imagined the New. (In the book, the author does not capitalize proper names but I did so because it looks odd otherwise.) Cain slays his brother, Abel, and then travels through various times and places of the Old Testament. In his wanderings he stumbles across

The lord, also known as god, created adam and eve, but due to tiredness of the act of creation or perhaps other minor distractions forgot to bestow them with the gift of speech, so to remedy that just stuck unceremoniously his tongue into them. However it seemed bizarre it worked excessively well but what adam did with his new art, Lets go to bed, he said to eve. Typical. Ok, ok he probably couldnt say how lovely dressed you are since they were naked, but still, though they hadnt bed too, I

A Portuguese MidrashSaramagos Cain is a traditional Midrash, a meditative, speculative commentary on the Torah, the first five books of the Jewish and Christian bibles. Despite its often comedic, mostly polemic assessment of the God of the Torah, conventionally ascribed to Moses, Saramago isnt the first or the most strident critic to take seriously the personality of Yahweh and what it might imply for humanity and the rest of creation. The most remarkable aspect of the work isnt its content but

Exactly my cup of tea. Wish it was longer though, that is the main complaint I have about this book. The writing style was a little odd at the beginning, but I got used to it pretty quickly (to the weird format of dialogue in the book, especially). our god, the creator of heaven and earth, is completely mad I think that this quote summarizes the book perfectly. If you're in a mood for reading slightly blasphemous, but yet funny and thought-provoking book with just above 150 pages, look no

José Saramago is certainly not the first writer to question the logic of the old testament, the legitimacy of the Lord's pronouncements, and the merits of the prophets who interpreted those pronouncements for the benefit of the descendants of Adam and Eve, and sometime later, for the benefit of descendants of the very small gene pool of Noahs family who survived the Flood and repopulated the earth when everyone else was drowned, but Saramago is possibly one of the most creative and original to