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With her incomparable pen, Amélie Nothomb gives Jesus voice and body a few hours before his crucifixion. She urges us to meet a completely human Christ, with flesh and blood, who ascends submissively to the top of nobility. A Christ who is tormented by thirst while at the same time enjoying it, since “to feel thirsty, you must be alive.”
With her incomparable pen, Amélie Nothomb gives Jesus voice and body a few hours before his crucifixion. She urges us to meet a completely human Christ, with flesh and blood, who ascends submissively to the top of nobility. A Christ who is tormented by thirst while at the same time enjoying it, since “to feel thirsty, you must be alive.” A Christ who lived “with so much passion that he died thirstily.” No literary restriction is an obstacle to the unbridled and bold imagination of Amélie Nothomb, who gives, with this book, one of her most intimate and profound novels.
On a mental and theological level, the author challenges, with logic and discernment, the long religious tradition of hatred for the body that led to the glorification of martyrdom. On a literary level, she accomplishes a task, succeeding in passing the critique of Christianity through the voice of Jesus, the narrator of his own story, without discrediting his face, or dismissing the novel in favor of the essay.
One may not be interested in Amélie Nothomb ‘s theological concerns, but it is impossible to question the power of her writing. She never stumbles. The cross does not become, even for a single moment, too heavy for her.
Through the words and doubts that Amélie Nothomb imagines disturbing the consciousness of Jesus, she finds a way to talk about faith being questioned. You need a materialized speech to speak of the Incarnation. And here the novelist triumphs.
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