In breve, la storia è questa.
He enraged America’s religious right with his portrayal of God as a senile old man in the His Dark Materials trilogy, and now Philip Pullman is set to court more Christian controversy – this time with a novel about “the Scoundrel Christ”. Continua...… e quest’altro è il fatto.
About six years ago, i had a conversation on the stage of the National Theatre with Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the course of talking about “His Dark Materials”, he said that he was curious to know why, although the story was plainly about a form of the Christian church, there was nothing about Jesus in the book.Credo proprio di amare quest’uomo e di volere questo libro, oh sì.
I said that he was right, there wasn’t, and that I’d deal with Jesus later in another book.
Well, the time has come. “The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ” will be published next April by Canongate as part of their Myths series. I’ve always been fascinated by the two parts of the name of Jesus Christ, and by the difference between them. Another thing that’s interested me for a long time is the way in which the Christian church began to formulate its beliefs and establish a canon of scripture: there were many more gospels than four, but why were those four chosen and others left out? When did Paul begin to write his epistles? Was what he said different from what the gospels say? Do the gospels even agree with one another? Was there a difference between Jesus and Christ?
My version of the Jesus story doesn’t attempt to solve these questions, but I hope readers will find it interesting. There will be various events and readings connected with the publication and I’ll let you know all about them when the dates are settled.
Fonte: Philip Pullman.
«Nessuno ha il diritto di vivere senza essere scioccato. Nessuno ha il diritto di passare la propria vita senza essere offeso. Nessuno è obbligato a leggere questo libro. Nessuno è costretto a prenderlo in mano. Nessuno è tenuto ad aprirlo. E se lo aprono e lo leggono, non sono tenuti a farselo piacere. E se lo leggete e non vi piace, non siete obbligati a tacere in proposito. Potete scrivermi, potete lamentarvi, potete scrivere all'editore, potete mandare lettere ai giornali, potete scrivere un vostro libro. Potete fare tutte queste cose, ma i vostri diritti si esauriscono lì. Nessuno ha il diritto di impedirmi di scrivere questo libro. Nessuno ha il diritto di impedire che sia pubblicato o venduto o comprato o letto. Non ho altro da dire in proposito».Sì, lo amo decisamente.Philip Pullman.
Fonte: Il Disinformatico.
