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Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha.
Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, "I want to believe."
Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, "I want to believe."
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P盲r Lagerkvist
168听books306听followersLagerkvist was born in 1891 in southern Sweden. In 1910 he went to Uppsala as a student and in 1913 he left for Paris, where he was exposed to the work of Pablo Picasso. He studied Middle Age Art, as well as Indian and Chinese literature, to prepare himself for becoming a poet. His first collection of poetry was published in 1916. In 1940 Lagerkvist was chosen as one of the "aderton" (the eighteen) of the Swedish Academy.
Lagerkvist wrote poetry, novels, plays, short stories and essays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951 "for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind."
Lagerkvist wrote poetry, novels, plays, short stories and essays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951 "for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind."
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May 13, 2024
Faptul c膬 Evangheliile (葯i cele canonice, 葯i cele apocrife) s卯nt laconice 卯n multe privin葲e i-a 卯ndemnat pe scriitori s膬-葯i imagineze 鈥瀍vanghelii alternative鈥�, biografii posibile, s膬 traseze 鈥瀙ortrete鈥� f膬r膬 un temei scripturar ferm.
Un astfel de portret imaginar a construit P盲r Fabian Lagerkvist (1891 - 1974) 卯n cartea de fa葲膬. La 卯ntrebarea lui Pilat din Pont, mul葲imea a ales (鈥濴a moarte cu omul acesta! Elibereaz膬-l pe Baraba...鈥�), 葯i Baraba se treze葯te liber, nici el nu 葯tie de ce. E nedumerit, confuz: l-a cunoscut 卯n temni葲膬 pe Iisus, nu i s-a p膬rut mai vinovat dec卯t el, l-a privit chiar cu un strop de admira葲ie. Cine a fost cu adev膬rat 鈥瀝abinul acela searb膬d鈥�? Vrea s膬 afle.
Romanul consemneaz膬, a葯adar, ancheta lui Baraba. 脦n Ierusalim, 卯i ascult膬 ne卯ncrez膬tor pe apostoli 葯i este privit de ei cu aceea葯i mefien葲膬. 脦n definitiv, 卯ntrebarea pe care 葯i-o pune Baraba (dar nu numai el) e redutabil膬: 鈥濽n Mesia care s膬 se lase r膬stignit... Cine a mai auzit una ca asta?鈥�. De ce s膬 accepte moartea, cui i-ar fi de folos aceast膬 moarte? R膬spunsul ucenicilor nu-l mul葲ume葯te. 葮i nici nu-l poate pricepe: Iisus a 鈥瀞uferit 葯i a murit nevinovat 卯n locul nostru... noi [oamenii] s卯ntem cei vinova牛i, 艧i nu el鈥�.
Via葲a lui Baraba va fi 卯ncercarea de a ob葲ine o certitudine. Este un individ sceptic, structural sceptic, ar vrea s膬 fac膬 saltul 卯n credin葲膬, dar nu poate. Mul葲i nu pot. Nu po葲i crede ceva pentru c膬 a葯a vrei. Nu te po葲i obliga s膬 crezi. Credin葲a nu e o decizie. Crezi 葯i gata. Baraba nu se las膬 convins de nici o relatare, de nici o dovad膬. 脦l viziteaz膬 pe Laz膬r, cel 卯nviat dup膬 patru zile, 葯i prime葯te un r膬spuns stupefiant: 鈥濩e, ai vrea s膬-牛i povestesc ceva despre 卯mp膬r膬牛ia mor牛ii? A艧a ceva nu pot. 脦mp膬r膬牛ia mor牛ii nu e nimic. Exist膬 鈥� dar nu e nimic鈥�. 脦nt卯lnirea nu i-a fost de folos.
Ajunge rob 卯ntr-o min膬 de cupru. 脦葯i face un prieten, Sahak, 卯nva葲膬 s膬 se roage, renun葲膬 dup膬 o vreme, nu pricepe rostul rug膬ciunii. Sahak e scos din min膬 葯i cere s膬 fie eliberat 葯i Baraba. Astfel, ajunge sclavul de cas膬 al procuratorului roman, 卯l 卯nso葲e葯te la Roma. Obsesia de a g膬si un r膬spuns nu-l p膬r膬se葯te. C卯nd izbucne葯te incendiul, sub Nero, 卯n 19 iulie 64, 卯葯i pierde min葲ile.
Pentru Baraba c膬utarea a fost un e葯ec: 鈥濧vusese vreun rost via牛a pe care o tr膬ise? Nici m膬car at卯t nu credea. Dar despre asta nu 艧tia de fapt nimic. Nu 卯i era lui dat s膬 judece鈥�. 脦n fiecare dintre noi se afl膬, probabil, un Baraba...
Un astfel de portret imaginar a construit P盲r Fabian Lagerkvist (1891 - 1974) 卯n cartea de fa葲膬. La 卯ntrebarea lui Pilat din Pont, mul葲imea a ales (鈥濴a moarte cu omul acesta! Elibereaz膬-l pe Baraba...鈥�), 葯i Baraba se treze葯te liber, nici el nu 葯tie de ce. E nedumerit, confuz: l-a cunoscut 卯n temni葲膬 pe Iisus, nu i s-a p膬rut mai vinovat dec卯t el, l-a privit chiar cu un strop de admira葲ie. Cine a fost cu adev膬rat 鈥瀝abinul acela searb膬d鈥�? Vrea s膬 afle.
Romanul consemneaz膬, a葯adar, ancheta lui Baraba. 脦n Ierusalim, 卯i ascult膬 ne卯ncrez膬tor pe apostoli 葯i este privit de ei cu aceea葯i mefien葲膬. 脦n definitiv, 卯ntrebarea pe care 葯i-o pune Baraba (dar nu numai el) e redutabil膬: 鈥濽n Mesia care s膬 se lase r膬stignit... Cine a mai auzit una ca asta?鈥�. De ce s膬 accepte moartea, cui i-ar fi de folos aceast膬 moarte? R膬spunsul ucenicilor nu-l mul葲ume葯te. 葮i nici nu-l poate pricepe: Iisus a 鈥瀞uferit 葯i a murit nevinovat 卯n locul nostru... noi [oamenii] s卯ntem cei vinova牛i, 艧i nu el鈥�.
Via葲a lui Baraba va fi 卯ncercarea de a ob葲ine o certitudine. Este un individ sceptic, structural sceptic, ar vrea s膬 fac膬 saltul 卯n credin葲膬, dar nu poate. Mul葲i nu pot. Nu po葲i crede ceva pentru c膬 a葯a vrei. Nu te po葲i obliga s膬 crezi. Credin葲a nu e o decizie. Crezi 葯i gata. Baraba nu se las膬 convins de nici o relatare, de nici o dovad膬. 脦l viziteaz膬 pe Laz膬r, cel 卯nviat dup膬 patru zile, 葯i prime葯te un r膬spuns stupefiant: 鈥濩e, ai vrea s膬-牛i povestesc ceva despre 卯mp膬r膬牛ia mor牛ii? A艧a ceva nu pot. 脦mp膬r膬牛ia mor牛ii nu e nimic. Exist膬 鈥� dar nu e nimic鈥�. 脦nt卯lnirea nu i-a fost de folos.
Ajunge rob 卯ntr-o min膬 de cupru. 脦葯i face un prieten, Sahak, 卯nva葲膬 s膬 se roage, renun葲膬 dup膬 o vreme, nu pricepe rostul rug膬ciunii. Sahak e scos din min膬 葯i cere s膬 fie eliberat 葯i Baraba. Astfel, ajunge sclavul de cas膬 al procuratorului roman, 卯l 卯nso葲e葯te la Roma. Obsesia de a g膬si un r膬spuns nu-l p膬r膬se葯te. C卯nd izbucne葯te incendiul, sub Nero, 卯n 19 iulie 64, 卯葯i pierde min葲ile.
Pentru Baraba c膬utarea a fost un e葯ec: 鈥濧vusese vreun rost via牛a pe care o tr膬ise? Nici m膬car at卯t nu credea. Dar despre asta nu 艧tia de fapt nimic. Nu 卯i era lui dat s膬 judece鈥�. 脦n fiecare dintre noi se afl膬, probabil, un Baraba...
April 13, 2012
鈥�Was there any meaning in the life he lived? Not even that did he believe in. But this was something he knew nothing about. It was not for him to judge.鈥�
Despite the small size of this novel, it is a deep chasm of heavy thoughts and difficult questions. Barabbas, widely considered the masterpiece of the Swedish author and 1951 Nobel laureate Par Lagerkvist, is a parable of the dilemma of faith. Barabbas, acquitted for murder, goes on living while Jesus is crucified in his stead, and spends his life haunted by this single event. While he is 鈥�damned lucky鈥�, emphasis on damned, to be alive, he cannot help but feel life is meaningless anyways and struggles to accept faith in this strange crucified man whom he hears so much about. Powerful and deeply moving, this novel offers a unique, detached perspective on religion and faith, as a parable that is as poignant today as it was back in the religious persecution days of ancient Rome while being able to reach a reader despite any personal religious beliefs.
Lagerkvist built a fruitful career around challenging morality and faith within his readers. His prose is simple and direct, wasting no time with verbose passages, and cuts right to the heart making every word count. This novel, weighing in at a mere 144 pages, is bursting beyond capacity with moral musings and feels more like a novel of epic proportions that a slim novella. He also manages to take a topic that is known for inducing strong, passionate opinions from both sides of the spectrum and writing about it in an objective, removed manner. For example, the opening chapter is the most chilling depiction of the crucifixion on Mouth Golgotha I have ever encountered. Barabbas stands and witnesses the scene with a cold indifference, not knowing anything about the man being crucified. Jesus is never named in the novel, being only referred to as the 鈥�dead man鈥� or 鈥�crucified man鈥�, and it is strange to see him regarded in such an impersonal way, especially in a scene illustrating his violent death. In a way, this objective approach is necessary to fit the lead character, but also makes the ideas easier to swallow as they aren鈥檛 tainted by emotion or seeming too slanted either way. There are times when both Christians and atheists will feel he is on their side and other passages where they will find him seemingly aligned against them. I feel this novel can work regardless of a religious opinion, yet as always, one must keep an open mind and allow the novel to unfold. It goes some very dark and disturbing places, and readers should be cautioned that the ironic, enigmatic conclusion is not a light at the end of a tunnel. This novel will challenge all beliefs and portray the world as a cruel, indifferent place as we follow Barabbas on his journey.
The idea of faith is the pulse of this novel. While Barabbas wants so badly to believe, he cannot. He cannot grasp the meaning behind the doctrine to 鈥�love one another鈥�, simple as it may be, for he has no notion of love. He witnesses many potent events, yet tries to find logical explanations for them. He also cannot grasp how if a man was God, why he would allow himself a slaves death, and furthermore, why he would allow his followers to suffer and be put to death as well. Lagerkvist lays out the foundation to the disbelief of a God found in many people, yet offers slight glimpses of counter arguments: 鈥�He had used his power in the most extraordinary way. Used it by not using it, as it were; allowed others to decide exactly as they liked; refrained from interfering and yet had got his own way all the same鈥�鈥� (remind LOST fans of Jacob there?). This crisis of faith causes the world to seem an even more indifferent place than he originally thought, 鈥�He was not bound together with anyone. Not with anyone at all in the whole world,鈥� and Lagerkvist pours an ocean of lonesome imagery into later portions of the novel.
Seemingly every word and event is a metaphor of religion, allowing the novel to work on several levels. Barabbas was 鈥�born hated鈥� by parents who cared nothing for him, such as the mother who died in childbirth cursing the world and all in it. He is damned from the start, much like the idea of original sin. The accusers of those who are preaching the crucified mans doctrine are often blind or near blind. Pay attention to every detail, as there are many layers to this novel. The book also works as a critique of modern times. The Christians in the book are persecuted for their faith, but it is primarily because it preaches that the lowest of citizens will be set free and equals with all those above them. Without understanding what this means, the Romans want to squash this belief as they want to keep the lepers and beggars and other lower class folk oppressed. Lagerkvist is often critical of those with power, yet shows many of the leaders as decent people and that it is the system and standards that create the cruelty those beneath them suffer. It is interesting how religion and Roman government are juxtaposed in many scenes, often more so to highlight their similarities instead of their differences. Lagerkvist is quite critical of Christians at time, showing many of the staunch followers to be rather hypocritical. They preach love and acceptance, yet seem very exclusive and unwelcoming to people who don鈥檛 fit their mold, such as Barabbas and the girl with the hare-lip.
I had read this intending it to be a quick escape after finishing Joyce鈥檚 epic novel, yet found myself caught up in the burdenous queries posed by this novel. Lagerkvist has a gift of stirring such strong feelings with so few words. If you enjoy examining faith, this is the book for you. It is a trip through suffering, offering both hope, and crushing visions of the world and death as a meaningless void. I will certainly be returning to the novels of Lagerkvist soon, his simple prose styling and layered meanings are too marvelous to only read one of his books.
4/5
I hope I didn't raise anyones blood pressure with this review. Please know that I had no intentions of conveying any opinions regarding religion, either for or against, and was simply trying to review a book with a difficult message. Anything said in this review was with no desire to dispute, argue, or impose any beliefs, just to detail the literary merits of this wonderful novel by an author surely deserving of the Nobel recognition. I would be more than happy to dicuss such topics with any willing person, as I find the various forms of religion fascinating, but this review was intended to be written purely objectively. Sorry for the disclaimer, but this is a touchy subject with many.
Despite the small size of this novel, it is a deep chasm of heavy thoughts and difficult questions. Barabbas, widely considered the masterpiece of the Swedish author and 1951 Nobel laureate Par Lagerkvist, is a parable of the dilemma of faith. Barabbas, acquitted for murder, goes on living while Jesus is crucified in his stead, and spends his life haunted by this single event. While he is 鈥�damned lucky鈥�, emphasis on damned, to be alive, he cannot help but feel life is meaningless anyways and struggles to accept faith in this strange crucified man whom he hears so much about. Powerful and deeply moving, this novel offers a unique, detached perspective on religion and faith, as a parable that is as poignant today as it was back in the religious persecution days of ancient Rome while being able to reach a reader despite any personal religious beliefs.
Lagerkvist built a fruitful career around challenging morality and faith within his readers. His prose is simple and direct, wasting no time with verbose passages, and cuts right to the heart making every word count. This novel, weighing in at a mere 144 pages, is bursting beyond capacity with moral musings and feels more like a novel of epic proportions that a slim novella. He also manages to take a topic that is known for inducing strong, passionate opinions from both sides of the spectrum and writing about it in an objective, removed manner. For example, the opening chapter is the most chilling depiction of the crucifixion on Mouth Golgotha I have ever encountered. Barabbas stands and witnesses the scene with a cold indifference, not knowing anything about the man being crucified. Jesus is never named in the novel, being only referred to as the 鈥�dead man鈥� or 鈥�crucified man鈥�, and it is strange to see him regarded in such an impersonal way, especially in a scene illustrating his violent death. In a way, this objective approach is necessary to fit the lead character, but also makes the ideas easier to swallow as they aren鈥檛 tainted by emotion or seeming too slanted either way. There are times when both Christians and atheists will feel he is on their side and other passages where they will find him seemingly aligned against them. I feel this novel can work regardless of a religious opinion, yet as always, one must keep an open mind and allow the novel to unfold. It goes some very dark and disturbing places, and readers should be cautioned that the ironic, enigmatic conclusion is not a light at the end of a tunnel. This novel will challenge all beliefs and portray the world as a cruel, indifferent place as we follow Barabbas on his journey.
The idea of faith is the pulse of this novel. While Barabbas wants so badly to believe, he cannot. He cannot grasp the meaning behind the doctrine to 鈥�love one another鈥�, simple as it may be, for he has no notion of love. He witnesses many potent events, yet tries to find logical explanations for them. He also cannot grasp how if a man was God, why he would allow himself a slaves death, and furthermore, why he would allow his followers to suffer and be put to death as well. Lagerkvist lays out the foundation to the disbelief of a God found in many people, yet offers slight glimpses of counter arguments: 鈥�He had used his power in the most extraordinary way. Used it by not using it, as it were; allowed others to decide exactly as they liked; refrained from interfering and yet had got his own way all the same鈥�鈥� (remind LOST fans of Jacob there?). This crisis of faith causes the world to seem an even more indifferent place than he originally thought, 鈥�He was not bound together with anyone. Not with anyone at all in the whole world,鈥� and Lagerkvist pours an ocean of lonesome imagery into later portions of the novel.
Seemingly every word and event is a metaphor of religion, allowing the novel to work on several levels. Barabbas was 鈥�born hated鈥� by parents who cared nothing for him, such as the mother who died in childbirth cursing the world and all in it. He is damned from the start, much like the idea of original sin. The accusers of those who are preaching the crucified mans doctrine are often blind or near blind. Pay attention to every detail, as there are many layers to this novel. The book also works as a critique of modern times. The Christians in the book are persecuted for their faith, but it is primarily because it preaches that the lowest of citizens will be set free and equals with all those above them. Without understanding what this means, the Romans want to squash this belief as they want to keep the lepers and beggars and other lower class folk oppressed. Lagerkvist is often critical of those with power, yet shows many of the leaders as decent people and that it is the system and standards that create the cruelty those beneath them suffer. It is interesting how religion and Roman government are juxtaposed in many scenes, often more so to highlight their similarities instead of their differences. Lagerkvist is quite critical of Christians at time, showing many of the staunch followers to be rather hypocritical. They preach love and acceptance, yet seem very exclusive and unwelcoming to people who don鈥檛 fit their mold, such as Barabbas and the girl with the hare-lip.
I had read this intending it to be a quick escape after finishing Joyce鈥檚 epic novel, yet found myself caught up in the burdenous queries posed by this novel. Lagerkvist has a gift of stirring such strong feelings with so few words. If you enjoy examining faith, this is the book for you. It is a trip through suffering, offering both hope, and crushing visions of the world and death as a meaningless void. I will certainly be returning to the novels of Lagerkvist soon, his simple prose styling and layered meanings are too marvelous to only read one of his books.
4/5
I hope I didn't raise anyones blood pressure with this review. Please know that I had no intentions of conveying any opinions regarding religion, either for or against, and was simply trying to review a book with a difficult message. Anything said in this review was with no desire to dispute, argue, or impose any beliefs, just to detail the literary merits of this wonderful novel by an author surely deserving of the Nobel recognition. I would be more than happy to dicuss such topics with any willing person, as I find the various forms of religion fascinating, but this review was intended to be written purely objectively. Sorry for the disclaimer, but this is a touchy subject with many.
September 27, 2018
My kids love churches, but not having been brought up religiously, they don't understand any of the iconography. Trying to explain to a six-year-old why they all have statues of this beardy guy slowly dying on a stick has really brought home to me what a hideous and morbid idea Christianity is built on. I understand that some people find it very touching and beautiful, but I find it difficult to see it that way. Telling people that this man went through agony, and then died, on your behalf, whether you like it or not, is a heavy load to lay on someone and entails a serious amount of what I suppose psychologists would call guilt.
What's very clever about this book is that P盲r Lagerkvist has found a way to examine this idea which works whether or not you believe in the metaphysics: Barabbas, the man acquitted in Jesus's place, is someone in whom the central myth of Christianity is literally true.
So the reactions of Barabbas 鈥� relief, disbelief, morbid curiosity, survivor's guilt 鈥� become a kind of study in what Christian dogma might imply for the human mind. Barabbas can never quite bring himself to believe in Jesus as a divine figure, but, as he says in the novel's most famous passage: 鈥業 want to believe.鈥� That conflict is the essence of the book.
Barabbas is a great figure to expand upon, since in the source material he is both crucial and barely mentioned. The Bible gives very few details about him, though there's some suggestion in Luke that he took part in riots in Jerusalem. John, usually the most poetic of the gospels, is disappointingly brief: it simply says, 鈥楤arabbas was a bandit [位峥兿兿勎�].鈥� This gives Lagerkvist great freedom to construct a suitably rough past for him, and the scope to imagine how this one act of being freed might have affected the rest of his life.
In some versions of the Biblical text, Barabbas's full name is 鈥楯esus Barabbas鈥� (which would make sense of Pilate's question to the crowd in Luke 鈥� 鈥榃ho would you have me free, [Jesus] Barabbas or the Jesus that is called Christ?鈥�). This may reflect a later mythological tradition, but even so, it points to a deep sense in which the two are equated 鈥� indeed, there are serious Biblical scholars who believe that they are one and the same person. This duality is fully explored in Lagerkvist's story, which sees Barabbas go through similar ordeals and, for that matter, end up nailed in the same place.
His state of mind and his state of belief at that point are open to interpretation. It's a very incisive way of looking at the challenges and mysteries of such big topics as atonement, the crucifixtion, and faith 鈥� and one which goes to the heart of them in a way that theological texts generally do not.
What's very clever about this book is that P盲r Lagerkvist has found a way to examine this idea which works whether or not you believe in the metaphysics: Barabbas, the man acquitted in Jesus's place, is someone in whom the central myth of Christianity is literally true.
They spoke of his having died for them. That might be. But he really had died for Barabbas, no one could deny it!
So the reactions of Barabbas 鈥� relief, disbelief, morbid curiosity, survivor's guilt 鈥� become a kind of study in what Christian dogma might imply for the human mind. Barabbas can never quite bring himself to believe in Jesus as a divine figure, but, as he says in the novel's most famous passage: 鈥業 want to believe.鈥� That conflict is the essence of the book.
Barabbas is a great figure to expand upon, since in the source material he is both crucial and barely mentioned. The Bible gives very few details about him, though there's some suggestion in Luke that he took part in riots in Jerusalem. John, usually the most poetic of the gospels, is disappointingly brief: it simply says, 鈥楤arabbas was a bandit [位峥兿兿勎�].鈥� This gives Lagerkvist great freedom to construct a suitably rough past for him, and the scope to imagine how this one act of being freed might have affected the rest of his life.
In some versions of the Biblical text, Barabbas's full name is 鈥楯esus Barabbas鈥� (which would make sense of Pilate's question to the crowd in Luke 鈥� 鈥榃ho would you have me free, [Jesus] Barabbas or the Jesus that is called Christ?鈥�). This may reflect a later mythological tradition, but even so, it points to a deep sense in which the two are equated 鈥� indeed, there are serious Biblical scholars who believe that they are one and the same person. This duality is fully explored in Lagerkvist's story, which sees Barabbas go through similar ordeals and, for that matter, end up nailed in the same place.
His state of mind and his state of belief at that point are open to interpretation. It's a very incisive way of looking at the challenges and mysteries of such big topics as atonement, the crucifixtion, and faith 鈥� and one which goes to the heart of them in a way that theological texts generally do not.
September 17, 2014
4.5/5
It amuses me, sometimes, the way people judge books. They'll ban them for epithets, they'll ban them for sex, they'll ban them for witchcraft. More often than not, they'll ban them for raising uncomfortable questions in the minds of children who have not yet been conditioned to follow the proper path. Ignore, and if you cannot ignore, condemn until you can, and if you cannot condemn until you can. Eradicate.
You could ban this book for any of those reasons, much as you could ban the Bible. Either one poses much more danger than most literature deemed unsafe. For one has resulted in millenia of misguided atrocities and the other is, well. A glimpse of the New Testament's birth, before all the context, before all the history, before all the rules. Of what could have resulted without it.
The New York Times and Time Magazine both referred to it as a parable. I really have to wonder how seriously they took it. It's true that it's not that long, and has religious underpinnings. The 'conveying a truth, religious principle, moral lesson, or meaning' part, though. To put it succinctly, in comparison to this 'parable', nihilism seems vastly more definitive, even encouraging. At least the latter has an end goal.
I will admit to bias, seeing how I was raised Catholic without once grasping the concept behind it all. The question has always fascinated me, though. The meaning of existence. And what a broad field it is! Sophisticated existentialism, misinformed agnosticism, misinterpreted atheism. The hydra of faith. It's all very fascinating, really. To see what extensive lengths humanity has gone to in its attempt to reconcile the matter of its wandering in the world. All the shields it has built up between it and the dark.
If this book doesn't make you question whatever shield you have chosen, I would be worried. It doesn't matter that this is framed within the context of one of many religions. It is a human story, subject to the facts of life, the whims of fate, and the maelstrom of the mind. Ultimately, it is cruel, and strange, and will not divulge its secrets, for the truth is that it has no secrets to divulge. What it has is a chain of events that could mean one thing, or another, unless perhaps you missed a lesson here, or heard something incorrectly there, and maybe that person really wasn't the right one you should have listened to, or it was that one happenstance that really messed things up, and if it wasn't for that one specific moment in time you'd know exactly what you were supposed to do, and how things were going to happen, and what it all meant.
Chitterings in the void.
You know what, go ahead and think that this is a parable. Settle on some kind of conclusion, at least, and get it out of your head. It's not conducive to living, this kind of talk. Banning is a bit much, but temperance. Yes. Temperance is a must.
It amuses me, sometimes, the way people judge books. They'll ban them for epithets, they'll ban them for sex, they'll ban them for witchcraft. More often than not, they'll ban them for raising uncomfortable questions in the minds of children who have not yet been conditioned to follow the proper path. Ignore, and if you cannot ignore, condemn until you can, and if you cannot condemn until you can. Eradicate.
You could ban this book for any of those reasons, much as you could ban the Bible. Either one poses much more danger than most literature deemed unsafe. For one has resulted in millenia of misguided atrocities and the other is, well. A glimpse of the New Testament's birth, before all the context, before all the history, before all the rules. Of what could have resulted without it.
The New York Times and Time Magazine both referred to it as a parable. I really have to wonder how seriously they took it. It's true that it's not that long, and has religious underpinnings. The 'conveying a truth, religious principle, moral lesson, or meaning' part, though. To put it succinctly, in comparison to this 'parable', nihilism seems vastly more definitive, even encouraging. At least the latter has an end goal.
I will admit to bias, seeing how I was raised Catholic without once grasping the concept behind it all. The question has always fascinated me, though. The meaning of existence. And what a broad field it is! Sophisticated existentialism, misinformed agnosticism, misinterpreted atheism. The hydra of faith. It's all very fascinating, really. To see what extensive lengths humanity has gone to in its attempt to reconcile the matter of its wandering in the world. All the shields it has built up between it and the dark.
If this book doesn't make you question whatever shield you have chosen, I would be worried. It doesn't matter that this is framed within the context of one of many religions. It is a human story, subject to the facts of life, the whims of fate, and the maelstrom of the mind. Ultimately, it is cruel, and strange, and will not divulge its secrets, for the truth is that it has no secrets to divulge. What it has is a chain of events that could mean one thing, or another, unless perhaps you missed a lesson here, or heard something incorrectly there, and maybe that person really wasn't the right one you should have listened to, or it was that one happenstance that really messed things up, and if it wasn't for that one specific moment in time you'd know exactly what you were supposed to do, and how things were going to happen, and what it all meant.
Chitterings in the void.
You know what, go ahead and think that this is a parable. Settle on some kind of conclusion, at least, and get it out of your head. It's not conducive to living, this kind of talk. Banning is a bit much, but temperance. Yes. Temperance is a must.
January 30, 2019
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乇爻賲 賵丕賱蹖 亘乇 丕賷賳 亘賵丿 讴賴 賴賳诏丕賲 毓賷丿 賷讴 夭賳丿丕賳蹖 乇丕 亘賴 丕賳鬲禺丕亘 賲乇丿賲 丌夭丕丿 爻丕夭丿. 丿乇 丌賳 夭賲丕賳 夭賳丿丕賳蹖 賲毓乇賵賮蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 丿乇 丨亘爻 亘賵丿. 倬爻 賴賳诏丕賲蹖 讴賴 賲乇丿賲 诏乇丿 丌賲丿賳丿貙 倬賷賱丕鬲爻 丕夭 丌賳賴丕 倬乇爻賷丿: 趩賴 讴爻蹖 乇丕 賲蹖鈥屫堌з囐娯� 亘乇丕賷鬲丕賳 丌夭丕丿 讴賳賲貙 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 乇丕 賷丕 毓賷爻丕蹖 賲毓乇賵賮 亘賴 賲爻賷丨 乇丕責 丕賷賳 乇丕 丕夭 丌賳鈥屸€屫辟� 诏賮鬲 讴賴 賲蹖鈥屫з嗀池� 毓賷爻蹖 乇丕 丕夭 爻乇賽 乇卮讴 亘賴 丕賵 鬲爻賱賷賲 讴乇丿賴鈥屫з嗀�. 賴賳诏丕賲蹖 讴賴 倬賷賱丕鬲爻 亘乇 賲爻賳丿 丿丕賵乇蹖 賳卮爻鬲賴 亘賵丿貙 賴賲爻乇卮 倬賷睾丕賲蹖 亘丿賷賳 賲囟賲賵賳 亘乇丕蹖 丕賵 賮乇爻鬲丕丿 讴賴 鬲賵 乇丕 亘丕 丕賷賳 賲乇丿 亘蹖鈥屭嗀з� 讴丕乇蹖 賳亘丕卮丿貙 夭賷乇丕 丕賲乇賵夭 禺賵丕亘蹖 丿乇亘丕乇賴 丕賵 丿賷丿賲 讴賴 賲乇丕 亘爻賷丕乇 乇賳噩 丿丕丿. 丕賲丕 爻乇丕賳 讴丕賴賳丕賳 賵 賲卮丕賷禺貙 賯賵賲 乇丕 鬲乇睾賷亘 讴乇丿賳丿 鬲丕 丌夭丕丿蹖 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 賵 賲乇诏 毓賷爻蹖 乇丕 亘禺賵丕賴賳丿. 倬爻 趩賵賳 賵丕賱賷 倬乇爻賷丿: 讴丿丕賲鈥屸€屬娳� 丕夭 丕賷賳 丿賵 乇丕 亘乇丕賷鬲丕賳 丌夭丕丿 讴賳賲責 倬丕爻禺 丿丕丿賳丿: 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 乇丕. 倬賷賱丕鬲爻 倬乇爻賷丿: 倬爻 亘丕 毓賷爻丕蹖 賲毓乇賵賮 亘賴 賲爻賷丨 趩賴 讴賳賲責 賴賲诏蹖 诏賮鬲賳丿: 亘乇 氐賱賷亘卮 讴賳! 倬賷賱丕鬲爻 倬乇爻賷丿: 趩乇丕責 趩賴 亘丿蹖鈥屫й� 讴乇丿賴 丕爻鬲責 丕賲丕 丌賳賴丕 亘賱賳丿鬲乇 賮乇賷丕丿 亘乇丌賵乇丿賳丿: 亘乇 氐賱賷亘卮 讴賳! 趩賵賳 倬賷賱丕鬲爻 丿賷丿 讴賴 讴賵卮卮 亘賷賴賵丿賴 丕爻鬲 賵 丨鬲賷 亘賷賲 卮賵乇卮 賲蹖鈥屫辟堌� 丌亘 禺賵丕爻鬲 賵 丿爻鬲賴丕蹖 禺賵丿 乇丕 丿乇 亘乇丕亘乇 賲乇丿賲 卮爻鬲 賵 诏賮鬲: 賲賳 丕夭 禺賵賳 丕賷賳 賲乇丿 亘乇蹖 賴爻鬲賲貙 禺賵丿 丿丕賳賷丿! 賲乇丿賲 賴賲賴 丿乇 倬丕爻禺 诏賮鬲賳丿: 禺賵賳 丕賵 亘乇 诏乇丿賳 賲丕 賵 賮乇夭賳丿丕賳 賲丕 亘丕丿! 丌賳诏丕賴 倬賷賱丕鬲爻貙 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 乇丕 亘乇丕賷卮丕賳 丌夭丕丿 讴乇丿 賵 毓賷爻蹖 乇丕 鬲丕夭賷丕賳賴 夭丿賴貙 爻倬乇丿 鬲丕 亘乇 氐賱賷亘卮 讴卮賳丿
賲鬲蹖 27: 15 鬲丕 26
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July 7, 2017
Barabbas is the guy who was acquitted in Christ's place - and, so, the only person Christ literally died for. And so, perhaps he might invite a parable for the whole Christian world? Personally, I can't see this book as a parable though. Personally, I think the story is called Barabbas because author talking about humanity in general needs a person around whom story could pivot (the word always reminds me of Ross) around and Barabbas happened to be a good choice. Since he is living because Jesus died for him, he has a very direct connection with him, he is closer to Christ than anybody else and can't get him out of his mind.
But this connection exists only in blind side. He hasn't talked with same - and has seen him only in the last moments when he was being humiliated and suffering miserably for having spread the message of love. Plus, Barabbas himself has a past filled with hatred - his father was a bandit, his mother gave him birth cursing the world Jesus was to bless, his own brother tried to kill him, and he is himself a bandit. Naturally, he finds the idea of 'loving one another' lunatic. And thus, even miracles he comes across aren't enough for him to believe in a messiah he doesn't understand.
As I said Barabbas is only a pivot thoigh, the story is just as much about characters around him. Despite being the Son of God, Jesus doesn't seem to have bother considering much as to who shall have the luck of being in his divine presence during his tour de Earth; asking total strangers to his scriptures to follow him and so on - there is hardly anything to suggest they deserve it. Just think some Roman soldier must have got the chance to nail Christ divine hand to cross and we don't know the name of notorious fellow! This seems a common problem with other Abrahamic messiahs too - God decided to put Mohammad in a desert too. Mosses was an exception, being born in a royal family of one of best civilizations of his time - but he quickly corrected it by taking his folks to deserts.
Anyways, the point being that like Barabbas, the early Christian folks seem to be mere everymen lacking any charisma whatsoever. So, what chance than did the followers had of understanding the divine message? Christ's 'love each other' is a riddle to people living in times when physical violence is common, slavery is exercised, people enjoying torturing victims - whether it be crucifixion or stoning. It is so far beyond everybody's head that understanding is not the way to it. All that is left, despite miracles and all is faith.
Such are troubles for Barabbas in his path to believe - for he wants to believe.Before he was acquitted he had to live for days in dark prison with nothing but the idea of a painful and humiliating death to look forward. Now that he is free - he has that awareness of inadequacy, of powerlessness of a human and his short life. Like Lazarus, whom too Jeses saved, the 'saving' hasn't restored him to what he was before. There is this craving in him - to believe in something. And unlike, many of us modern folks, he doesn't have any alternatives in forms of the philosophical system, nor is he gifted in any art forms or has a family to support. And so, like a star-crossed lover, he keeps in turns refusing and returning to Christ.
While there are miracles in the book, they only serve to raise questions. Christians are constantly persecuted but that doesn't The book has one foot each both in boats of belief and lack of same and it manages to balance brilliantly.
But this connection exists only in blind side. He hasn't talked with same - and has seen him only in the last moments when he was being humiliated and suffering miserably for having spread the message of love. Plus, Barabbas himself has a past filled with hatred - his father was a bandit, his mother gave him birth cursing the world Jesus was to bless, his own brother tried to kill him, and he is himself a bandit. Naturally, he finds the idea of 'loving one another' lunatic. And thus, even miracles he comes across aren't enough for him to believe in a messiah he doesn't understand.
As I said Barabbas is only a pivot thoigh, the story is just as much about characters around him. Despite being the Son of God, Jesus doesn't seem to have bother considering much as to who shall have the luck of being in his divine presence during his tour de Earth; asking total strangers to his scriptures to follow him and so on - there is hardly anything to suggest they deserve it. Just think some Roman soldier must have got the chance to nail Christ divine hand to cross and we don't know the name of notorious fellow! This seems a common problem with other Abrahamic messiahs too - God decided to put Mohammad in a desert too. Mosses was an exception, being born in a royal family of one of best civilizations of his time - but he quickly corrected it by taking his folks to deserts.
Anyways, the point being that like Barabbas, the early Christian folks seem to be mere everymen lacking any charisma whatsoever. So, what chance than did the followers had of understanding the divine message? Christ's 'love each other' is a riddle to people living in times when physical violence is common, slavery is exercised, people enjoying torturing victims - whether it be crucifixion or stoning. It is so far beyond everybody's head that understanding is not the way to it. All that is left, despite miracles and all is faith.
Such are troubles for Barabbas in his path to believe - for he wants to believe.Before he was acquitted he had to live for days in dark prison with nothing but the idea of a painful and humiliating death to look forward. Now that he is free - he has that awareness of inadequacy, of powerlessness of a human and his short life. Like Lazarus, whom too Jeses saved, the 'saving' hasn't restored him to what he was before. There is this craving in him - to believe in something. And unlike, many of us modern folks, he doesn't have any alternatives in forms of the philosophical system, nor is he gifted in any art forms or has a family to support. And so, like a star-crossed lover, he keeps in turns refusing and returning to Christ.
While there are miracles in the book, they only serve to raise questions. Christians are constantly persecuted but that doesn't The book has one foot each both in boats of belief and lack of same and it manages to balance brilliantly.
September 1, 2016
"I have no god", Barabbas answered at last...He wanted to believe. But he did not understand.
"Why then do you bear this "Christos Iesus" carved on your disk?"
"Because I want to believe", Barabbas said..."
"Love one another" - that's what they said the message of the crucified man was. Love one another - now what could that mean to Barabbas's simple mind? What could love mean to Barabbas who had been hated even by his mother from the moment he drew his first breath? Who had never felt any emotional connection with another human being? No it was too much for Barabbas to understand.
He was unwittingly caught up in happenings well beyond his comprehension. He could not believe in the messiah that many others had faith in. At the same time, he never was able to shirk off his sense of guilt and spiritual torment. His inner struggle reminds me a lot of . Both struggle with questions of faith, albeit of very different nature.
It was Barrabas's poor luck that his life be entwined so closely with that of the crucified man - perhaps even closer than the strongest of the believers. When Barabbas was allowed to live, the other had to die. One died among his friends and followers. Barabbas lived and died alone - utterly alone. One was said to have risen from the dead. Barabbas -while still breathing - found himself trapped in the realm of the dead. Barabbas carried a disk with the name "Christos Iesus" crossed out. And that was his cross to bear.
On one hand, Barabbas, having witnessed these events of possibly huge import, was unable to put the pieces together and make any sense out of it. On the other, there were followers who knew of the messiah only from hearsay, yet believed in him strongly enough to part with their lives in his name. From firm believers, to staunch dissenters, to skeptics, Lagerkvist has created the entire spectrum. Through this ensemble, Lagrekvist also explores the nature of faith. Some believe too readily, some others are too cautious. He also brings to fore how questions of faith and superstition could have political ramifications. There are multiple mentions of lepers and slaves eagerly awaiting the appearance of the messiah and giving them a better life. These people of the lower classes who have no other way of belying a life of drudgery, are willing to grab on to anything that gives them hope. The possibility of the lower classes gaining strength makes the government stir to curb people's beliefs. And amidst all this turbulence, stands Barabbas, dazed like a deer, attempting in vain to fight off the storm within himself.
Of course, this doesn't need to be read as a religious novel. I read this as a story about a man's inner struggle. Lagrekvist achieves an impressive feat by telling the story from the naive and uncomprehending point of view of Barabbas. Even with such a narrow field of vision, he presents a story with multiple layers and a lot of depth. Barabbas's view will provide the readers with a lot to chew upon. It was only Barabbas who did not understand....
PS: The book also comes with a seal of approval from , if the name means anything to you.
February 15, 2019
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鈥庁ㄘж必жㄘж池� 賲爻蹖丨 乇丕 丕夭 賳夭丿蹖讴 丿蹖丿賴 丕爻鬲貙 賵賱蹖 丕賵 乇丕 亘賴 毓賳賵丕賳賽 蹖讴 倬蹖丕賲亘乇 蹖丕 賲賵噩賵丿蹖 亘乇鬲乇 丕夭 丕賳爻丕賳賴丕蹖賽 丿蹖诏乇 賳賲蹖丿丕賳丿.. 亘丕 丕蹖賳 丨丕賱貙 賲乇丿賲 丿爻鬲 丕夭 爻乇賽 丕賵 亘乇 賳賲蹖丿丕乇賳丿 賵 丨丕賱 讴賴 賮賴賲蹖丿賴 丕賳丿 丕賵 毓蹖爻蹖 乇丕 丿蹖丿賴 丕爻鬲貙 丕夭 賵賽蹖 賲購丿丕賲 丿乇禺賵丕爻鬲 賲蹖讴賳賳丿 鬲丕 丿乇 賲賵乇丿賽 毓蹖爻蹖 亘乇丕蹖卮丕賳 爻禺賳 亘诏賵蹖丿... 賵賱蹖 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻賽 亘蹖趩丕乇賴貙 丿蹖诏乇 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賲爻丕卅賱 禺爻鬲賴 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲 賵 丨丕囟乇 賳蹖爻鬲 爻禺賳 亘诏賵蹖丿 賵 丕诏乇 趩蹖夭蹖 賴賲 賲蹖诏賵蹖丿貙 賴賲趩賵賳 賴賲丕賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖賽 賲氐賱賵亘 卮丿賳賽 賲爻蹖丨貙 賲賴賲賱丕鬲蹖 賳丕賲賮賴賵賲 亘賴 夭亘丕賳 賲蹖 丌賵乇丿... 丕賱亘鬲賴 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 禺蹖賱蹖 趩蹖夭賴丕 乇丕 賳賲蹖鬲賵丕賳丿 賮乇丕賲賵卮 讴賳丿 賵 賳賵毓蹖 丕賳丿賵賴 賵 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖貙 卮亘蹖賴 亘賴 毓匕丕亘賽 賵噩丿丕賳貙 丿乇 賵噩賵丿卮 乇蹖卮賴 丿賵丕賳丿賴 丕爻鬲
鈥庁ㄘж必жㄘж� 爻毓蹖 賲蹖讴賳丿 鬲丕 亘丕 讴丕乇 讴乇丿賳貙 禺賵蹖卮 乇丕 爻乇诏乇賲 讴乇丿賴 鬲丕 蹖丕丿賽 賲爻蹖丨 賵 賲乇丿賲貙 丕賵 乇丕 乇賴丕 讴賳丿.. 亘賳丕亘乇丕蹖賳 賲丿鬲蹖 丿乇 賲毓丿賳賽 賲爻貙 賲卮睾賵賱 亘賴 讴丕乇 賲蹖卮賵丿 賵 丿乇 賲毓丿賳 亘丕 亘乇丿賴 丕蹖 卮賵乇卮蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲賽 <爻丕賴丕讴> 丌卮賳丕 賲蹖卮賵丿 ... 爻丕賴丕讴 亘丿賵賳賽 丌賳讴賴 亘賴 丿乇爻鬲蹖 亘丿丕賳丿 毓蹖爻蹖 讴賴 亘賵丿賴 賵 趩賴 亘賵丿賴 丕爻鬲!! 賴賲丕賳賳丿賽 丿蹖诏乇 丕蹖賲丕賳 丌賵乇賳丿诏丕賳賽 賲匕賴亘蹖 丿乇 胤賵賱賽 鬲丕乇蹖禺 讴賴 賳賲蹖丿丕賳賳丿 亘賴 趩賴 趩蹖夭蹖 丕蹖賲丕賳 丌賵乇丿賴 丕賳丿! 亘賴 賲爻蹖丨 丕蹖賲丕賳 丌賵乇丿賴 賵 氐賱蹖亘蹖 亘賴 诏乇丿賳 丌賵蹖禺鬲賴 丕爻鬲... 丿乇 賴乇丨丕賱貙 爻丕賴丕讴賽 亘丿亘禺鬲 乇丕 亘丕 丌賳 氐賱蹖亘賽 丿乇 诏乇丿賳卮貙 丿爻鬲诏蹖乇 讴乇丿賴 賵 賳夭丿賽 丿丕丿爻鬲丕賳賽 乇賵賲 賲蹖亘乇賳丿 賵 爻丕賴丕讴 丕毓鬲乇丕賮 賲蹖讴賳丿 讴賴 蹖讴 賲爻蹖丨蹖 賲蹖亘丕卮丿 賵 亘賴 丨讴賲賽 丿丕丿诏丕賴貙 爻丕賴丕讴 乇丕 丿乇 賲賯丕亘賱賽 丿蹖丿诏丕賳賽 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 亘賴 氐賱蹖亘 賲蹖讴卮賳丿 .. 诏賵蹖丕 丿乇 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳貙 丕蹖賳 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻賽 亘蹖趩丕乇賴貙 亘丕蹖丿 賴乇 丿賮毓賴 卮丕賴丿賽 賲氐賱賵亘 卮丿賳賽 卮賵乇卮蹖 賴丕蹖蹖 賴賲趩賵賳 毓蹖爻蹖 賲爻蹖丨 賵 爻丕賴丕讴 賵 丿蹖诏乇 倬蹖乇賵丕賳賽 賲爻蹖丨蹖 亘丕卮丿.. 讴賴 丕賱亘鬲賴 丕夭 丿蹖丿诏丕賴賽 賲爻蹖丨蹖丕賳貙 丕蹖賳 蹖毓賳蹖 毓匕丕亘 讴卮蹖丿賳賽 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻!!! 丿乇讴賱 丿賵爻鬲丕賳賽 诏乇丕賲蹖貙 鬲賳賴丕 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 賲蹖鬲賵丕賳丿 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 噩丕賱亘 讴賳丿貙 賴賲蹖賳 亘蹖 鬲賮丕賵鬲蹖 賵 亘蹖 孬亘丕鬲蹖賽 匕賴賳蹖賽 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 賲蹖亘丕卮丿 讴賴 丕賱亘鬲賴 丕蹖賳 亘蹖 孬亘丕鬲蹖 丿乇 賳賵毓賽 賳诏丕乇卮賽 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賳蹖夭 賳賲丕蹖丕賳 丕爻鬲... 丕鬲賮丕賯丕賸 丕蹖賳讴賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 <倬丕乇賱丕 诏乇讴賵蹖爻鬲> 賳賵卮鬲賴 丕爻鬲 賳蹖夭 賳賵毓蹖 亘蹖 孬亘丕鬲蹖 亘賴 卮賲丕乇 賲蹖 丌蹖丿 賵 噩丕賱亘 丕爻鬲.. 趩乇丕讴賴 丕蹖賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴貙 鬲丕 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賲賳 賲蹖丿丕賳賲貙 亘賴 賴蹖趩 毓賳賵丕賳 亘賴 賲爻蹖丨 賵 丿蹖诏乇 賲賵賴賵賲丕鬲賽 丿蹖賳蹖 賵 賲匕賴亘蹖貙 亘丕賵乇 賳丿丕卮鬲賴 丕爻鬲
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鈥庁з呟屫堌ж辟� 丕蹖賳 乇蹖賵蹖賵貙 丿乇 噩賴鬲賽 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 亘丕 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳貙 賲賮蹖丿 亘賵丿賴 亘丕卮賴
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鈥庁ㄘж必жㄘж池� 賲爻蹖丨 乇丕 丕夭 賳夭丿蹖讴 丿蹖丿賴 丕爻鬲貙 賵賱蹖 丕賵 乇丕 亘賴 毓賳賵丕賳賽 蹖讴 倬蹖丕賲亘乇 蹖丕 賲賵噩賵丿蹖 亘乇鬲乇 丕夭 丕賳爻丕賳賴丕蹖賽 丿蹖诏乇 賳賲蹖丿丕賳丿.. 亘丕 丕蹖賳 丨丕賱貙 賲乇丿賲 丿爻鬲 丕夭 爻乇賽 丕賵 亘乇 賳賲蹖丿丕乇賳丿 賵 丨丕賱 讴賴 賮賴賲蹖丿賴 丕賳丿 丕賵 毓蹖爻蹖 乇丕 丿蹖丿賴 丕爻鬲貙 丕夭 賵賽蹖 賲購丿丕賲 丿乇禺賵丕爻鬲 賲蹖讴賳賳丿 鬲丕 丿乇 賲賵乇丿賽 毓蹖爻蹖 亘乇丕蹖卮丕賳 爻禺賳 亘诏賵蹖丿... 賵賱蹖 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻賽 亘蹖趩丕乇賴貙 丿蹖诏乇 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賲爻丕卅賱 禺爻鬲賴 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲 賵 丨丕囟乇 賳蹖爻鬲 爻禺賳 亘诏賵蹖丿 賵 丕诏乇 趩蹖夭蹖 賴賲 賲蹖诏賵蹖丿貙 賴賲趩賵賳 賴賲丕賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖賽 賲氐賱賵亘 卮丿賳賽 賲爻蹖丨貙 賲賴賲賱丕鬲蹖 賳丕賲賮賴賵賲 亘賴 夭亘丕賳 賲蹖 丌賵乇丿... 丕賱亘鬲賴 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 禺蹖賱蹖 趩蹖夭賴丕 乇丕 賳賲蹖鬲賵丕賳丿 賮乇丕賲賵卮 讴賳丿 賵 賳賵毓蹖 丕賳丿賵賴 賵 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖貙 卮亘蹖賴 亘賴 毓匕丕亘賽 賵噩丿丕賳貙 丿乇 賵噩賵丿卮 乇蹖卮賴 丿賵丕賳丿賴 丕爻鬲
鈥庁ㄘж必жㄘж� 爻毓蹖 賲蹖讴賳丿 鬲丕 亘丕 讴丕乇 讴乇丿賳貙 禺賵蹖卮 乇丕 爻乇诏乇賲 讴乇丿賴 鬲丕 蹖丕丿賽 賲爻蹖丨 賵 賲乇丿賲貙 丕賵 乇丕 乇賴丕 讴賳丿.. 亘賳丕亘乇丕蹖賳 賲丿鬲蹖 丿乇 賲毓丿賳賽 賲爻貙 賲卮睾賵賱 亘賴 讴丕乇 賲蹖卮賵丿 賵 丿乇 賲毓丿賳 亘丕 亘乇丿賴 丕蹖 卮賵乇卮蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲賽 <爻丕賴丕讴> 丌卮賳丕 賲蹖卮賵丿 ... 爻丕賴丕讴 亘丿賵賳賽 丌賳讴賴 亘賴 丿乇爻鬲蹖 亘丿丕賳丿 毓蹖爻蹖 讴賴 亘賵丿賴 賵 趩賴 亘賵丿賴 丕爻鬲!! 賴賲丕賳賳丿賽 丿蹖诏乇 丕蹖賲丕賳 丌賵乇賳丿诏丕賳賽 賲匕賴亘蹖 丿乇 胤賵賱賽 鬲丕乇蹖禺 讴賴 賳賲蹖丿丕賳賳丿 亘賴 趩賴 趩蹖夭蹖 丕蹖賲丕賳 丌賵乇丿賴 丕賳丿! 亘賴 賲爻蹖丨 丕蹖賲丕賳 丌賵乇丿賴 賵 氐賱蹖亘蹖 亘賴 诏乇丿賳 丌賵蹖禺鬲賴 丕爻鬲... 丿乇 賴乇丨丕賱貙 爻丕賴丕讴賽 亘丿亘禺鬲 乇丕 亘丕 丌賳 氐賱蹖亘賽 丿乇 诏乇丿賳卮貙 丿爻鬲诏蹖乇 讴乇丿賴 賵 賳夭丿賽 丿丕丿爻鬲丕賳賽 乇賵賲 賲蹖亘乇賳丿 賵 爻丕賴丕讴 丕毓鬲乇丕賮 賲蹖讴賳丿 讴賴 蹖讴 賲爻蹖丨蹖 賲蹖亘丕卮丿 賵 亘賴 丨讴賲賽 丿丕丿诏丕賴貙 爻丕賴丕讴 乇丕 丿乇 賲賯丕亘賱賽 丿蹖丿诏丕賳賽 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 亘賴 氐賱蹖亘 賲蹖讴卮賳丿 .. 诏賵蹖丕 丿乇 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳貙 丕蹖賳 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻賽 亘蹖趩丕乇賴貙 亘丕蹖丿 賴乇 丿賮毓賴 卮丕賴丿賽 賲氐賱賵亘 卮丿賳賽 卮賵乇卮蹖 賴丕蹖蹖 賴賲趩賵賳 毓蹖爻蹖 賲爻蹖丨 賵 爻丕賴丕讴 賵 丿蹖诏乇 倬蹖乇賵丕賳賽 賲爻蹖丨蹖 亘丕卮丿.. 讴賴 丕賱亘鬲賴 丕夭 丿蹖丿诏丕賴賽 賲爻蹖丨蹖丕賳貙 丕蹖賳 蹖毓賳蹖 毓匕丕亘 讴卮蹖丿賳賽 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻!!! 丿乇讴賱 丿賵爻鬲丕賳賽 诏乇丕賲蹖貙 鬲賳賴丕 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 賲蹖鬲賵丕賳丿 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 噩丕賱亘 讴賳丿貙 賴賲蹖賳 亘蹖 鬲賮丕賵鬲蹖 賵 亘蹖 孬亘丕鬲蹖賽 匕賴賳蹖賽 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 賲蹖亘丕卮丿 讴賴 丕賱亘鬲賴 丕蹖賳 亘蹖 孬亘丕鬲蹖 丿乇 賳賵毓賽 賳诏丕乇卮賽 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賳蹖夭 賳賲丕蹖丕賳 丕爻鬲... 丕鬲賮丕賯丕賸 丕蹖賳讴賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 <倬丕乇賱丕 诏乇讴賵蹖爻鬲> 賳賵卮鬲賴 丕爻鬲 賳蹖夭 賳賵毓蹖 亘蹖 孬亘丕鬲蹖 亘賴 卮賲丕乇 賲蹖 丌蹖丿 賵 噩丕賱亘 丕爻鬲.. 趩乇丕讴賴 丕蹖賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴貙 鬲丕 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賲賳 賲蹖丿丕賳賲貙 亘賴 賴蹖趩 毓賳賵丕賳 亘賴 賲爻蹖丨 賵 丿蹖诏乇 賲賵賴賵賲丕鬲賽 丿蹖賳蹖 賵 賲匕賴亘蹖貙 亘丕賵乇 賳丿丕卮鬲賴 丕爻鬲
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鈥庁з呟屫堌ж辟� 丕蹖賳 乇蹖賵蹖賵貙 丿乇 噩賴鬲賽 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 亘丕 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳貙 賲賮蹖丿 亘賵丿賴 亘丕卮賴
鈥�<倬蹖乇賵夭 亘丕卮蹖丿 賵 丕蹖乇丕賳蹖>
February 4, 2023
Interesting novel. Lagerkvist has creatively handled the known story of the Christian Passion and focussed on the perspective of Barabbas, the criminal that in the biblical story was released in exchange for Christ. He is presented as as troubled and a seeking man, that really wanted but could not believe in Jesus. Fortunately, the traditional Scandinavian moralising tone is absent here. Nicely written, with sometimes beautiful passages and even in many ways an evocation of life in the margin and the centre of the Roman Empire. In my view, Lagerkvist could have gone a bit further in his psychological portrait, and made the novel longer; there's a bit too little flesh on the bone, here.
(rating 2.5 stars)
(rating 2.5 stars)
December 29, 2014
丕賮囟賱 乇賵丕賷丞 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 鬲賯乇兀賴丕 鬲噩爻丿 丕賱氐乇丕毓 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷 賲丕 亘賷賳 丕賱賰賮乇 賵丕賱廿賷賲丕賳
丨丕賱丞 丕賱卮賰 賵賲丕 亘賷賳 丕賱廿賷賲丕賳 賵賳賯賷囟賴 賯氐丞 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱匕賷 兀胤賱賯 爻乇丕丨賴 賮賷賲 兀毓丿賲 丕賱賲爻賷丨.. 乇丕卅毓丞
January 3, 2015
*賴匕賴 丕賱賲購乇丕噩毓丞 鬲丨鬲賵賷 毓賱賶 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賯丿 賱丕 賷賮賴賲賴丕 爻賵賶 丕賱廿禺賵丞 丕賱賲爻賷丨賷賷賳.
丕賱賲爻賷丨 毓賷爻賶 丕亘賳 賲乇賷賲 賳亘賷 丕賱賱賴貙 丕賱賲禺賱賵賯 亘賰賱賲丞 "賰賳 賮賷賰賵賳" 乇爻賵賱賸丕 賱亘賳賷 廿爻乇丕卅賷賱貙 鬲賰賱賲 賮賷 丕賱賲賴丿 賱賷卮賴丿 毓賱賶 亘乇丕亍丞 兀賲賴 "賲乇賷賲 丕賱毓匕乇丕亍" 賵亘兀賳賴 賰賱賲丞 丕賱賱賴貙 賯丕賱 鬲毓丕賱賶 賮賷 爻賵乇丞 賲乇賷賲: 賯賻丕賱賻 廿賽賳賽賾賷 毓賻亘賿丿購 丕賱賱賻賾賴賽 丌鬲賻丕賳賽賷賻 丕賱賿賰賽鬲賻丕亘賻 賵賻噩賻毓賻賱賻賳賽賷 賳賻亘賽賷賾丕賸 (30) 賵賻噩賻毓賻賱賻賳賽賷 賲購亘賻丕乇賻賰丕賸 兀賻賷賿賳賻 賲賻丕 賰購賳鬲購 賵賻兀賻賵賿氐賻丕賳賽賷 亘賽丕賱氐賻賾賱賻丕丞賽 賵賻丕賱夭賻賾賰賻丕丞賽 賲賻丕 丿購賲賿鬲購 丨賻賷賾丕賸 (31) 賵賻亘賻乇賾丕賸 亘賽賵賻丕賱賽丿賻鬲賽賷 賵賻賱賻賲賿 賷賻噩賿毓賻賱賿賳賽賷 噩賻亘賻賾丕乇丕賸 卮賻賯賽賷賾丕賸 (32) 賵賻丕賱爻賻賾賱賻丕賲購 毓賻賱賻賷賻賾 賷賻賵賿賲賻 賵購賱賽丿鬲購賾 賵賻賷賻賵賿賲賻 兀賻賲購賵鬲購 賵賻賷賻賵賿賲賻 兀購亘賿毓賻孬購 丨賻賷賾丕賸 (33) 匕賻賱賽賰賻 毓賽賷爻賻賶 丕亘賿賳購 賲賻乇賿賷賻賲賻 賯賻賵賿賱賻 丕賱賿丨賻賯賽賾 丕賱賻賾匕賽賷 賮賽賷賴賽 賷賻賲賿鬲賻乇購賵賳賻 (34) 賲賻丕 賰賻丕賳賻 賱賽賱賻賾賴賽 兀賻賳 賷賻鬲賻賾禺賽匕賻 賲賽賳 賵賻賱賻丿賺 爻購亘賿丨賻丕賳賻賴購 廿賽匕賻丕 賯賻囟賻賶 兀賻賲賿乇丕賸 賮賻廿賽賳賻賾賲賻丕 賷賻賯購賵賱購 賱賻賴購 賰購賳 賮賻賷賻賰購賵賳購 (35)
賵噩毓賱 賱賴 賲賳 丕賱賲毓噩夭丕鬲 賲丕 賷賱賷貙 賯丕賱 鬲毓丕賱賶 賮賷 爻賵乇丞 丌賱 毓賲乇丕賳: 賵賻乇賻爻購賵賱丕賸 廿賽賱賻賶 亘賻賳賽賷 廿賽爻賿乇賻丕卅賽賷賱賻 兀賻賳賽賾賷 賯賻丿賿 噩賽卅賿鬲購賰購賲 亘賽丌賷賻丞賺 賲賽賾賳 乇賻賾亘賽賾賰購賲賿 兀賻賳賽賾賷 兀賻禺賿賱購賯購 賱賻賰購賲 賲賽賾賳賻 丕賱胤賽賾賷賳賽 賰賻賴賻賷賿卅賻丞賽 丕賱胤賻賾賷賿乇賽 賮賻兀賻賳賮購禺購 賮賽賷賴賽 賮賻賷賻賰購賵賳購 胤賻賷賿乇丕賸 亘賽廿賽匕賿賳賽 丕賱賱賾賴賽 賵賻兀購亘賿乇賽卅購 丕賱兀賰賿賲賻賴賻 賵丕賱兀賻亘賿乇賻氐賻 賵賻兀購丨賿賷賽賭賷 丕賱賿賲賻賵賿鬲賻賶 亘賽廿賽匕賿賳賽 丕賱賱賾賴賽 賵賻兀購賳賻亘賽賾卅購賰購賲 亘賽賲賻丕 鬲賻兀賿賰購賱購賵賳賻 賵賻賲賻丕 鬲賻丿賻賾禺賽乇購賵賳賻 賮賽賷 亘購賷購賵鬲賽賰購賲賿 廿賽賳賻賾 賮賽賷 匕賻賱賽賰賻 賱丌賷賻丞賸 賱賻賾賰購賲賿 廿賽賳 賰購賳鬲購賲 賲購賾丐賿賲賽賳賽賷賳賻 (49)
賮賷 匕賱賰 丕賱夭賲賳 賰丕賳 丕賱乇賵賲丕賳 賴賲 兀氐丨丕亘 丕賱賲乇賰夭 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷 賮賷 丕賱賯丿爻 賵丕賱賷賴賵丿 賴賲 乇噩丕賱 丕賱丿賷賳貙 賵賲毓 丕賳鬲卮丕乇 丕賱馗賱賲 賵丕賱賮爻丕丿 賰丕賳 丕賱賳亘賷 毓賷爻賶 賴賵 丕賱賲賳賯匕 賵丕賱賴丕丿賷 廿賱賶 胤乇賷賯 丕賱丨賯貙 賳氐賷乇 丕賱賮賯乇丕亍 賵丕賱囟毓賮丕亍 賵卮丕賮賷 丕賱賲乇囟賶 賵賲購丨賷賷 丕賱賲賵鬲賶 亘廿匕賳 丕賱賱賴貙 賵賲毓 鬲夭丕賷丿 兀鬲亘丕毓賴 賵廿賷賲丕賳賴賲 亘賴 兀孬丕乇 匕賱賰 丕賱兀賲乇 丨賮賷馗丞 丕賱賰賴賳丞 賵乇噩丕賱 丕賱丿賷賳 賱鬲亘丿兀 丕賱丨乇亘 賲賳 丕賱賲囟丕賷賯丞 賵丕賱爻禺乇賷丞 賵丕賱丕爻鬲賴夭丕亍 亘賴 賵賲丨丕賵賱丞 鬲卮賵賷賴 爻賲毓鬲賴 兀賲丕賲 兀鬲亘丕毓賴 廿賱賶 兀賳 鬲胤賵乇鬲 亘丕賱賮鬲賳丞 毓賳丿 丕賱丨丕賰賲 丕賱乇賵賲丕賳賷 "亘賷賱丕胤爻 丕賱亘賳胤賷" 亘賯賵賱賴賲 兀賳 毓賷爻賶 爻賵賮 賷賯賵丿 賲馗丕賴乇丞 賱廿爻賯丕胤 丕賱丨賰賲 丕賱乇賵賲丕賳賷 賵兀賳賴 賷賯賵賲 亘鬲丨乇賷囟 丕賱毓丕賲丞 賵賲賳毓賴賲 賲賳 丿賮毓 丕賱囟乇丕卅亘 賱賱丿賵賱丞貙 賮兀賲乇 亘爻噩賳 丕賱賲爻賷丨 鬲丨鬲 囟睾胤 賲賳 賯爻丕賵爻丞 丕賱賷賴賵丿貙 廿賱丕 兀賳賴 亘毓丿 丕賱鬲丨賯賷賯 賲毓賴 賱賲 賷乇賶 賮賷 毓賷爻賶 兀胤賲丕毓賸丕 爻賷丕爻賷丞 兀賵 鬲賴丿賷丿賸丕 賱賱毓乇卮貙 賵賲毓 賴匕丕 乇囟禺 賱賯賵丞 丕賱賷賴賵丿 賵賱賲 賷兀賲乇 亘賯鬲賱賴 亘賱 噩毓賱 丕賱賯乇丕乇 賱賴賲 賮賷 賷賵賲 丕賱賮氐丨 丨賷孬 賷禺鬲丕乇 丕賱賳丕爻 賵丕丨丿 賲賳 丕孬賳賷賳貙 賷鬲賲 丕賱毓賮賵 毓賳 兀丨丿賴賲 賵廿毓丿丕賲 丕賱丌禺乇 氐賱亘賸丕. 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 賴賵 丕賱爻噩賷賳 丕賱丌禺乇 丕賱匕賷 鬲賲 丕賱賯亘囟 毓賱賷賴 亘鬲賴賲丞 丕賱爻乇賯丞貙 丕賱賯鬲賱貙 丕賱賮爻丕丿 賵丕賱賮鬲賳丞貙 賵賰丕賳 賲賳 廿賳丨胤丕胤 丕賱噩賲賴賵乇 丕賱匕賷 丨囟乇 賮賷 爻丕丨丞 丕賱賯囟丕亍 賲賳 乇噩丕賱 丕賱丿賷賳 賵兀鬲亘丕毓賴賲 兀賳 賷胤賱亘賵賳 賲賳 丕賱丨丕賰賲 丕賱乇賵賲丕賳賷 廿胤賱丕賯 爻乇丕丨 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 丕賱賮丕爻丿 賵廿毓丿丕賲 丕賱氐丕丿賯 丕賱賲爻賷丨 毓賱賷賴 丕賱爻賱丕賲 氐賱亘賸丕貙 丨賷孬 丕購賯鬲賷丿 亘賲卮賴丿 賷購丿賲賷 丕賱賯賱亘 廿賱賶 "丕賱噩賱噩賱丞" 賵賴賷 丕賱氐禺乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷購毓鬲賯丿 兀賳 丕賱賲爻賷丨 氐購賱亘 毓賱賷賴丕貙 賵賷丨賱 賲賰丕賳賴丕 丕賱賷賵賲 賰賳賷爻丞 丕賱賯賷丕賲丞 賮賷 丕賱賯丿爻 丕賱賲丨鬲賱丞. 亘賴匕丕 丕賱賲卮賴丿 丕賱匕賷 氐購賱亘 賮賷賴 丕賱賲爻賷丨 賵爻胤 丕孬賳賷賳 賲賳 丕賱賲丨賰賵賲 毓賱賷賴賲 亘丕賱廿毓丿丕賲 賱賮爻丕丿賴賲 賷鬲噩賱賶 丕賱馗賱賲 賮賷 兀亘卮毓 氐賵乇丞. 賴購賳丕 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱賱賰丕鬲亘 丕賱爻賵賷丿賷 亘丕乇 賱丕睾乇賰賮賷爻鬲 丕賱丨丕卅夭 毓賱賶 噩丕卅夭丞 賳賵亘賱 賱賱兀丿亘 毓丕賲 1951 賵丕賱匕賷 噩毓賱 賲賳 賴匕丕 丕賱賲噩乇賲 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 毓賳賵丕賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賮賷 鬲氐賵賷乇 丕賱丨丕賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀氐丕亘鬲賴 亘毓丿 兀賳 鬲賲 廿胤賱丕賯 爻乇丕丨賴 賵賴賵 丕賱賲丨賰賵賲 亘丕賱廿毓丿丕賲 賱噩乇丕卅賲賴 賲賳 兀噩賱 賴匕丕 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱氐丕賱丨 丕賱匕賷 賷丐賲賳 亘賴 丕賱賳丕爻 賵賷鬲丨丿孬賵賳 毓賳 賲毓噩夭丕鬲賴貙 賴匕賴 丕賱氐丿賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀乇賴賯鬲賴 賮賴賵 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱氐賱亘 丕賱賯丕爻賷 亘賱丕 兀亘貙 賵毓賳丿 賵賱丕丿鬲賴 丕毓鬲亘乇鬲賴 兀賲賴 亘兀賳賴 賱毓賳賴 賮毓丕卮 賲賱丨丿賸丕 賱丕 賷丐賲賳 亘卮賷亍 丨鬲賶 鬲睾賷乇 賰孬賷乇賸丕 亘毓丿 兀賳 賯丕亘賱 丕賱賲爻賷丨 賵賰丕賳 賷毓鬲亘乇 賳賮爻賴 賲丨馗賵馗賸丕 賱賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱鬲賷 賲賳丨鬲 賱賴 賵賱賰賳賴 賱丕 賷爻鬲丨賯 匕賱賰 賮亘爻亘亘賴 鬲賲 廿毓丿丕賲 丕賱賲爻賷丨貙 賵兀氐亘丨 賲賳亘賵匕賸丕 賮賷 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓貙 孬賲 爻賷胤乇鬲 丕賱卮賰賵賰 毓賱賷賴 賮賷 丕賱賱賴 賵丕賱丿賷賳 賵賲丕 亘毓丿 丕賱賲賵鬲.
賲卮賴丿 丕賱鬲丨賯賷賯 賵丕賱賲丨丕賰賲丞 賮賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱賲賯丿爻貙 廿賳噩賷賱 賱賵賯丕 23
1. 賵賯丕賲賻 丕賱丨購囟賵乇購 賰購賱購賾賴購賲 賵噩丕丐購賵丕 亘賽賴 廿賱賶 亘賭賷賱丕胤購爻賻貙 2. 賵兀禺匕賵丕 賷賻鬲賻賾賴賽賲賵賳賻賴購 賮賷賯賵賱賵賳賻 賵噩賻丿賿賳丕 賴匕丕 丕賱乇賻賾噩購賱賻 賷孬賷乇購 丕賱賮賽鬲賳賻丞賻 賮賷 卮賻毓亘賽賳丕貙 賵賷賻賲賳賻毓購賴購 兀賳賿 賷丿賮賻毓賻 丕賱噩賽夭賷賻丞賻 廿賱賶 丕賱賯賻賷氐賻乇賽貙 賵賷賻丿賻賾毓賷 兀賳賻賾賴購 丕賱賲爻賷丨購 丕賱賲賻賱賽賰購. 3. 賮爻兀賱賻賴購 亘賽賭賷賱丕胤購爻購 兀兀賳鬲賻 賲賻賱賽賰購 丕賱賷賻賴賵丿賽 賮兀噩丕亘賻賴購 兀賳鬲賻 賯購賱鬲賻. 4. 賮賯丕賱賻 亘賽賭賷賱丕胤購爻購 賱賽乇購丐爻丕亍賽 丕賱賰賻賴賳賻丞賽 賵丕賱噩購賲賵毓賽 賱丕 兀噩賽丿購 噩購乇賲賸丕 毓賱賶 賴匕丕 丕賱乇賻賾噩購賱賽 5. 賵賱賰賳賻賾賴購賲 兀氐賻乇購賾賵丕 毓賱賶 賯賵賱賽賴賽賲 廿賳賻賾賴購 賷購孬賷乇購 丕賱卮賻賾毓亘賻 亘鬲賻毓賱賷賲賽賴賽 賮賷 丕賱賷賻賴賵丿賷賻賾丞賽 賰購賱賽賾賴丕貙 賲賽賳賻 丕賱噩賻賱賷賱賽 廿賱賶 賴購賳丕. 6. 賮爻兀賱賻 亘賽賭賷賱丕胤購爻購 毓賽賳丿賻賲丕 爻賻賲賽毓賻 賴匕丕 丕賱賰賱丕賲賻 賴賻賱賽 丕賱乇賻賾噩購賱購 賲賽賳賻 丕賱噩賱賷賱賽 7. 賮賱賲賻賾丕 毓賻乇賮賻 兀賳賻賾賴購 賲賽賳賿 賵賱丕賷賻丞賽 賴賽賷乇賵丿購爻賻 兀乇爻賻賱賻賴購 廿賱賶 賴賽賷乇賵丿購爻賻貙 賵賴賵賻 賮賷 匕賱賽賰賻 丕賱賵賻賯鬲賽 賳丕夭賽賱賾 賮賷 兀購賵乇購卮賱賷賲賻. 8. 賮賱賲賻賾丕 乇兀賶 賴賽賷乇賵丿購爻購 賷賻爻賵毓賻 賮賻乇賽丨賻 賰孬賷乇賸丕貙 賱兀賳賻賾賴購 賰丕賳賻 賷賻乇睾賻亘購 賲賽賳賿 夭賲丕賳 亘賻毓賷丿賺 兀賳賿 賷賻乇丕賴購 賱賽賰賻孬乇賻丞賽 賲丕 爻賻賲賽毓賻 毓賻賳賴購貙 賵賷賻乇噩賵 兀賳賿 賷賻卮賴賻丿賻 丌賷賻丞賸 鬲賻鬲賽賲購賾 毓賱賶 賷丿賽賴賽. 9. 賮爻兀賱賻賴購 賲爻丕卅賽賱賻 賰孬賷乇丞賸貙 賮賲丕 兀噩丕亘賻賴購 毓賻賳賿 卮賷亍賺. 10. 賵賯丕賲賻 乇購丐爻丕亍購 丕賱賰賻賴賳賻丞賽 賵賲購毓賻賱賽賾賲賵 丕賱卮賻賾乇賷毓丞賽 賷賻鬲賻賾賴賽賲賵賳賻賴購 賵賷購卮賻丿賽賾丿賵賳賻 毓賱賻賷賴賽 丕賱鬲購賾賴賻賲. 11. 賮兀賴丕賳賻賴購 賴賷乇賵丿購爻購 賵噩購賳賵丿購賴購. 賵丕鈥徹池庂囏操庁Ｙ� 亘賽賴貙 賮兀賱亘賻爻賴購 孬賻賵亘賸丕 亘乇賾丕賯賸丕 賵乇賻丿賻賾賴 廿賱賶 亘賽賭賷賱丕胤購爻賻. 12. 賵鬲氐賻丕賱賻丨賻 賴賽賷乇賵丿購爻購 賵亘賽賭賷賱丕胤購爻購 賮賷 匕賱賽賰賻 丕賱賷賵賲賽貙 賵賰丕賳丕 賲賽賳賿 賯賻亘賱購 賲購鬲賻禺丕氐賽賲賻賷賳賽. 13. 賮丿賻毓丕 亘賽賭賷賱丕胤購爻購 乇購丐爻丕亍賻 丕賱賰賻賴賳賻丞賽 賵丕賱夭購賾毓賻賲丕亍賻 賵丕賱卮賻賾毓亘賻 14. 賵賯丕賱賻 賱賴購賲 噩賽卅鬲購賲 廿賱賷賻賾 亘賽賴匕丕 丕賱乇賻賾噩購賱賽 賵賯購賱鬲購賲 廿賳賻賾賴購 賷購囟賱賽賾賱購 丕賱卮賻锟斤拷毓亘賻. 賮賻賮賻丨賻氐鬲購賴購 兀賲丕賲賻賰購賲貙 賮賲丕 賵噩賻丿賿鬲購 兀賳賻賾賴購 丕鈥徹必冑庁ㄙ� 卮賻賷卅賸丕 賲賲賻賾丕 鬲鬲賻賾賴賽賲賵賳賻賴購 亘賽賴貙 15. 賵賱丕 賴賽賷乇賵丿購爻購 賵噩賻丿賻 兀賷囟賸丕貙 賱兀賳賻賾賴購 乇賻丿賻賾賴購 廿賽賱賷賳丕. 賮賱丕 卮賷亍賻 廿匕賸丕 賮毓賻賱賻賴購 賴匕丕 丕賱乇賻賾噩購賱購 賷賻爻鬲賵噩賽亘購 亘賽賴 丕賱賲賵鬲賻. 16. 賮爻兀噩賱賽丿購賴購 賵兀購禺賱賷 爻賻亘賭賷賱賻賴購. [ 17. 賵賰丕賳賻 毓賱賶 亘賽賭賷賱丕胤購爻賻 兀賳賿 賷購胤賱賽賯賻 賱賴購賲 賮賷 賰購賱賽賾 毓賷丿賺 賵丕丨丿賸丕 賲賽賳賻 丕賱爻購賾噩賳丕亍賽]. 18. 賮賻氐丕丨賵丕 亘賽氐賵鬲賺 賵丕丨丿賺 兀賯鬲購賱賿 賴匕丕 丕賱乇賻賾噩購賱賻 賵兀胤賱賽賯賿 賱賳丕 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻賻 19. 賵賰丕賳賻 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻購 賮賷 丕賱爻賽賾噩賳賽 賱丕鈥徹簇愗必з冑愘囐� 賮賷 賮賽鬲賳丞賺 賵賯賻毓賻鬲 賮賷 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞賽貙 賵賱丕鈥徹辟捸冐жㄙ愘囐� 噩賻乇賷賲丞賻 賯賻鬲賱. 20. 賮禺丕胤亘賻賴購賲 亘賽賭賷賱丕胤購爻購 孬丕賳賷丞賸 賱兀賳賻賾賴購 賰丕賳賻 賷購乇賷丿購 兀賳賿 賷購禺賱賽賭賷賻 爻賻亘賭賷賱賻 賷賻爻賵毓賻貙 21. 賮氐丕丨賵丕 廿氐賱賽亘賿賴購 廿氐賱賽亘賿賴購 22. 賮賯丕賱賻 賱賴購賲 孬丕賱孬丞賸 兀賷賻賾 卮賻乇賺賾 賮毓賻賱賻 賴匕丕 丕賱乇賻賾噩購賱購 賱丕 兀噩賽丿購 毓賱賻賷賴賽 賲丕 賷賻爻鬲賻賵噩賽亘購 亘賽賴 丕賱賲賵鬲賻. 賮爻兀噩賱賽丿購賴購 賵兀購禺賱賷 爻亘賭賷賱賻賴購 23. 賮兀賱丨賾賵丕 毓賱賻賷賴賽 亘兀毓賱賶 兀氐賵丕鬲賽賴賽賲 胤丕賱賽亘賭賷賳賻 氐賻賱亘賻賴購貙 賵丕鈥徹簇庁庂� 氐賽賷丕丨購賴購賲貙 24. 賮丨賰賻賲賻 亘賽賭賷賱丕胤購爻購 兀賳賿 賷購噩丕亘賻 胤賱賻亘購賴購賲貙 25. 賮兀胤賱賻賯賻 丕賱乇賻賾噩購賱賻 丕賱匕賷 胤賻賱賻亘賵賴購貙 賵賰丕賳賻 賮賷 丕賱爻賽賾噩賳賽 賱賽噩乇賷賲賻丞賽 賯賻鬲賱 賵廿孬丕乇賻丞賽 賮賽鬲賳丞賺貙 賵兀爻賱賻賲賻 賷賻爻賵毓賻 廿賱賶 賲賻卮賷卅賻鬲賽賴賽賲. 26. 賵亘賻賷賳賻賲丕 賴購賲 匕丕賴賽亘賵賳賻 亘賽賴貙 兀賲爻賻賰賵丕 爻賽賲毓丕賳賻貙 賵賴賵賻 乇賻噩購賱賾 賯賽賭賷乇賷賳賷賹賾 賰丕賳賻 乇丕噩賽毓賸丕 賲賽賳賻 丕賱丨賻賯賱賽貙 賮兀賱賯賻賵丕 毓賱賻賷賴賽 丕賱氐賻賾賱賷亘賻 賱賷賻丨賲賽賱賻賴購 禺賻賱賮賻 賷賻爻賵毓賻.
賲卮賴丿 丌禺乇 賲丐孬乇 亘賻丿賻乇 賲賳 丕賱賲爻賷丨 毓賱賷賴 丕賱爻賱丕賲貙 毓賳丿賲丕 兀丨囟乇 廿賱賷賴 乇噩丕賱 丕賱丿賷賳 廿賲乇兀丞 賲鬲賴賲丞 亘丕賱夭賳賶 賵胤丕賱亘賵丕 亘乇噩賲賴丕 賱賷賯賵賱 噩賲賱鬲賴 丕賱毓馗賷賲丞: 賲賻賳賿 賰賻丕賳賻 賲賽賳賿賰購賲賿 亘賽賱丕賻 禺賻胤賽賷卅賻丞賺 賮賻賱賿賷賻乇賿賲賽賴賻丕 兀賻賵賻賾賱丕賸 亘賽丨賻噩賻乇!
賵賴賳丕賰 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賲卮丕賴丿 丕賱鬲賷 鬲爻鬲丨賯 丕賱鬲兀賲賱.
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孬賲 卮丕賴丿鬲 丕賱賮賷賱賲 丕賱賲爻鬲賵丨賶 賲賳 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻.
Barabbas - 2012
賵亘毓丿 匕賱賰 卮丕賴丿鬲 丕賱賮賷賱賲 丕賱賲孬賷乇 賱賱噩丿賱 賰毓丕丿丞 丕賱兀賮賱丕賲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 丕賱兀賳亘賷丕亍貙 賵丕賱匕賷 賷購氐賵乇 賷爻賵毓 兀賵 丕賱賲爻賷丨 毓賷爻賶 丕亘賳 賲乇賷賲 賲賳匕 丕賱賵賱丕丿丞 丨鬲賶 丕賱廿毓丿丕賲.
Son of God
September 8, 2020
Salvato dalla croce al posto di Cristo, Barabba assiste alla sua morte sul Golgota e ne rimane colpito. 脠 un uomo senza Dio, che vorrebbe tanto riuscire a credere; avverte il peso della solitudine ma non 猫 capace di coltivare rapporti umani. Pochi squarci di luce improvvisi e abbaglianti attraversano la sua vita di uomo ai margini, concepito e generato nell鈥檕dio verso il mondo e chi lo ha creato. Dall鈥檌nferno delle miniere a una ritrovata luce del sole di Roma, poi il falso bagliore del fuoco che segner脿 definitivamente il suo destino e infine la morte, desiderata e temuta. In quel momento estremo
鈥渄isse nell鈥檕scurit脿, come se parlasse con essa: A te raccomando l鈥檃nima mia.
Ed esal貌 lo spirito鈥�.
鈥渄isse nell鈥檕scurit脿, come se parlasse con essa: A te raccomando l鈥檃nima mia.
Ed esal貌 lo spirito鈥�.
April 29, 2019
Un roman interesant...
"Oamenii ace葯tia erau str芒ns lega葲i prin credin葲a aceasta a lor, a tuturor, 葯i aveau grij膬 ca nu cumva s膬 li se al膬ture vreun necredincios. Erau fra葲i de credin葲膬 葯i-葯i aveau agapele lor, unde fr芒ngeau p芒inea 卯mpreun膬 ca 卯ntr-o mare familie unit膬. 脦i lega 卯nv膬葲膬tura lor, acel "s膬 v膬 iubi葲i unii pe al葲ii". Dar dac膬 puteau iubi pe un altul care nu era ca ei, era mai greu de 葯tiut."
"Oamenii ace葯tia erau str芒ns lega葲i prin credin葲a aceasta a lor, a tuturor, 葯i aveau grij膬 ca nu cumva s膬 li se al膬ture vreun necredincios. Erau fra葲i de credin葲膬 葯i-葯i aveau agapele lor, unde fr芒ngeau p芒inea 卯mpreun膬 ca 卯ntr-o mare familie unit膬. 脦i lega 卯nv膬葲膬tura lor, acel "s膬 v膬 iubi葲i unii pe al葲ii". Dar dac膬 puteau iubi pe un altul care nu era ca ei, era mai greu de 葯tiut."
March 5, 2025
Barabbas sees the death of Jesus but lets others convince him that what he saw was not real. When he comes to realize that the story is true he finds himself in the same position as Jesus...but this time he is ready to accept the truth. A tale of redemption through suffering.
April 16, 2012
The story of Barabbas being unbeliever although he has witnessed the crucifixion eclipse that darkness that accompanied the crucifixion and was supposed to be a miracle and also t he resurrection of Jesus after he had been crucified and buried and his visit to , a man who lived through the resurrection process. All this doesnt prevent him from being a skeptic who cant believe that God could be crucified , and has his own doubts through his journey searching for answers鈥︹€nd peace for his soul and cure for his loneliness that he recognized at the end鈥︹€n contrary to Sahak who is Faithful Believer and is willing to die for what he believe without witnessing the miracles that Barabbas has , this raise a question ,should faith be taken by mind as Barabbas who suffered the darkness of the soul or by heart like Sahak did and find his own peace鈥� 鈥︹€�
i think Barabbas struggling to believe might have a reflection on P盲r life ,his own trial to understand Jesus.......
i think Barabbas struggling to believe might have a reflection on P盲r life ,his own trial to understand Jesus.......
March 6, 2018
Arricchisco la mia collezione di romanzi di argomento biblico con questo vangelo secondo Barabba. Durante la lettura mi sono interrogato molto sul protagonista, un vero misantropo. Un personaggio notevole, raccontato con molta economia e perci貌 ammantato di mistero. L'incontro con Ges霉-incontro a distanza- lo segna. Un mondo d'amore, ma che assurdit脿 猫 questa? Una possibilit脿 non concessagli, che lo tormenter脿 per tutta la vita rendendola peggiore, se possibile.
L'autore svela poco dei suoi trascorsi, ma con un piglio da narratore onnisciente, che non trova eguali nel resto del romanzo, svela un dettaglio che nessun personaggio del romanzo pu貌 conoscere. A parte questo, un'ottima lettura. Cupa, bruta, scontrosa, ingrata, soffocante, ottima.
L'autore svela poco dei suoi trascorsi, ma con un piglio da narratore onnisciente, che non trova eguali nel resto del romanzo, svela un dettaglio che nessun personaggio del romanzo pu貌 conoscere. A parte questo, un'ottima lettura. Cupa, bruta, scontrosa, ingrata, soffocante, ottima.
March 3, 2021
Skandinavi拧ko egzistencializmo perlas, ne pirm膮 ir ne paskutin寞 kart膮 skaitau ir vis ka啪kaip labai palie膷ia. Apie laisv臋 ir jos na拧t膮, apie tams膮 ir 拧vies膮 kurios slepias m奴s懦 akyse. (Yra ir lietuvi拧kai)
February 5, 2015
賵賰丕賳 賱賴賲 丨賷賳卅匕 兀爻賷乇 賲卮賴賵乇 賷爻賲賶 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻.
賮賮賷賲丕 賴賲 賲噩鬲賲毓賵賳 賯丕賱 賱賴賲 亘賷賱丕胤爻: 芦賲賳 鬲乇賷丿賵賳 兀賳 兀胤賱賯 賱賰賲責 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 兀賲 賷爻賵毓 丕賱匕賷 賷丿毓賶 丕賱賲爻賷丨責禄
賵賱賰賳 乇丐爻丕亍 丕賱賰賴賳丞 賵丕賱卮賷賵禺 丨乇囟賵丕 丕賱噩賲賵毓 毓賱賶 兀賳 賷胤賱亘賵丕 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 賵賷賴賱賰賵丕 賷爻賵毓.
賮兀噩丕亘 丕賱賵丕賱賷 賵賯丕賱 賱賴賲: 芦賲賳 賲賳 丕賱丕孬賳賷賳 鬲乇賷丿賵賳 兀賳 兀胤賱賯 賱賰賲責禄 賮賯丕賱賵丕: 芦亘丕乇丕亘丕爻!禄.
丨賷賳卅匕 兀胤賱賯 賱賴賲 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻貙 賵兀賲丕 賷爻賵毓 賮噩賱丿賴 賵兀爻賱賲賴 賱賷氐賱亘.
賴賷 乇賵丕賷丞 賲匕賴賱丞
賴匕丕 賲丕 賰賳鬲 賵丕孬賯賸丕 賲賳賴 賲賳匕 亘丿丕賷鬲賴丕
賲賳 兀賵賱 氐賮丨丞 鬲丿乇賰 賰賲 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷丞 賮賷賴丕
乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丨賰賷 毓賳 丕賱氐乇丕毓 丕賱丿丕卅賲
亘賷賳 丕賱廿賷賲丕賳 賵丕賱賰賮乇
賮賷 丿丕禺賱 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻
丕賱賲噩乇賲貙 丕賱丨賯賷乇. 丕賱匕賷 乇兀賷 賵賱賲 賷丐賲賳
賵毓賳丿賲丕 丌賳 丕賱丌賵丕賳
賰丕賳 賯丿 氐賱亘
乇賵丕賷丞 賲賲鬲毓丞 噩丿賸丕貙 乇睾賲 氐睾乇賴丕 丕賱卮丿賷丿
賰賳鬲 兀鬲賲賳賶 亘丕賱胤亘毓 賱賵 賰丕賳鬲 兀賰亘乇
賵賱賰賳 賱丕 亘兀爻
鬲噩乇亘丞 噩賷丿丞 噩丿賸丕 賲毓 亘丕乇 賱丕噩乇賰賮賷爻鬲
賵賱賳 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱兀禺賷乇丞
賮賮賷賲丕 賴賲 賲噩鬲賲毓賵賳 賯丕賱 賱賴賲 亘賷賱丕胤爻: 芦賲賳 鬲乇賷丿賵賳 兀賳 兀胤賱賯 賱賰賲責 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 兀賲 賷爻賵毓 丕賱匕賷 賷丿毓賶 丕賱賲爻賷丨責禄
賵賱賰賳 乇丐爻丕亍 丕賱賰賴賳丞 賵丕賱卮賷賵禺 丨乇囟賵丕 丕賱噩賲賵毓 毓賱賶 兀賳 賷胤賱亘賵丕 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 賵賷賴賱賰賵丕 賷爻賵毓.
賮兀噩丕亘 丕賱賵丕賱賷 賵賯丕賱 賱賴賲: 芦賲賳 賲賳 丕賱丕孬賳賷賳 鬲乇賷丿賵賳 兀賳 兀胤賱賯 賱賰賲責禄 賮賯丕賱賵丕: 芦亘丕乇丕亘丕爻!禄.
丨賷賳卅匕 兀胤賱賯 賱賴賲 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻貙 賵兀賲丕 賷爻賵毓 賮噩賱丿賴 賵兀爻賱賲賴 賱賷氐賱亘.
賴賷 乇賵丕賷丞 賲匕賴賱丞
賴匕丕 賲丕 賰賳鬲 賵丕孬賯賸丕 賲賳賴 賲賳匕 亘丿丕賷鬲賴丕
賲賳 兀賵賱 氐賮丨丞 鬲丿乇賰 賰賲 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷丞 賮賷賴丕
乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丨賰賷 毓賳 丕賱氐乇丕毓 丕賱丿丕卅賲
亘賷賳 丕賱廿賷賲丕賳 賵丕賱賰賮乇
賮賷 丿丕禺賱 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻
丕賱賲噩乇賲貙 丕賱丨賯賷乇. 丕賱匕賷 乇兀賷 賵賱賲 賷丐賲賳
賵毓賳丿賲丕 丌賳 丕賱丌賵丕賳
賰丕賳 賯丿 氐賱亘
乇賵丕賷丞 賲賲鬲毓丞 噩丿賸丕貙 乇睾賲 氐睾乇賴丕 丕賱卮丿賷丿
賰賳鬲 兀鬲賲賳賶 亘丕賱胤亘毓 賱賵 賰丕賳鬲 兀賰亘乇
賵賱賰賳 賱丕 亘兀爻
鬲噩乇亘丞 噩賷丿丞 噩丿賸丕 賲毓 亘丕乇 賱丕噩乇賰賮賷爻鬲
賵賱賳 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱兀禺賷乇丞
October 4, 2014
Barabbas is a poor wretch. You have to feel sorry for him, for through no will or desire or intention of his own he finds himself in the center of one of the most momentous events in human history - his life is spared and Jesus is crucified - but this "resurrection" of Barabbas only makes his life more difficult as he's unprepared to process all the metaphysical implications of the event. He's actually constitutionally incapable of understanding metaphysics; all he understands is life and the fact of death - he prefers to live because he fears death - but suddenly he's thrust into a social web of metaphysical/religious subtleties that he simply can not understand, yet he must deal with because there's no way for him to avoid it - he can't just slip back into his previous life.
There's nothing mature or sophisticated about Barabbas's viewpoints. He's not an atheist, exactly, since to be an atheist requires some struggling with God-issues. He's just a man who has a simple, small, materialist vision of life; and a simple basic fear of death. The course of his life after being spared brings him into contact with believers, but he can not believe. Yet because he happened to be present at certain events in Jesus's life he ends up fortifying the faith of others who didn't see these things firsthand (Barabbas seems to slightly alter his stories to please who's listening). This may be a commentary on the foolishness of people who's faith is strengthened by anecdotal evidence alone, but it also demonstrates the power of pure faith, regardless of the basis for it. This is one of the major themes of this book: faith versus lack of faith and how one or the other affects an individual's relationship with death. There's no real stand on the veracity of Jesus as the Son of God or the claims of his followers. It's the story of a poor wretch who finds himself in a world that is suddenly beyond his understanding.
Lagerkvist's spare and simple prose is the perfect medium for this subject matter. There is nothing extraneous in the text, and this starkness throws all that's written into a clear desert-like light that easily passes through the book/mind membrane with very little distortion so to stimulate the maximum amount of thought and allow free contemplation.
There's nothing mature or sophisticated about Barabbas's viewpoints. He's not an atheist, exactly, since to be an atheist requires some struggling with God-issues. He's just a man who has a simple, small, materialist vision of life; and a simple basic fear of death. The course of his life after being spared brings him into contact with believers, but he can not believe. Yet because he happened to be present at certain events in Jesus's life he ends up fortifying the faith of others who didn't see these things firsthand (Barabbas seems to slightly alter his stories to please who's listening). This may be a commentary on the foolishness of people who's faith is strengthened by anecdotal evidence alone, but it also demonstrates the power of pure faith, regardless of the basis for it. This is one of the major themes of this book: faith versus lack of faith and how one or the other affects an individual's relationship with death. There's no real stand on the veracity of Jesus as the Son of God or the claims of his followers. It's the story of a poor wretch who finds himself in a world that is suddenly beyond his understanding.
Lagerkvist's spare and simple prose is the perfect medium for this subject matter. There is nothing extraneous in the text, and this starkness throws all that's written into a clear desert-like light that easily passes through the book/mind membrane with very little distortion so to stimulate the maximum amount of thought and allow free contemplation.
November 30, 2021
亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 胤亘賯丕 賱賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱丕賳噩賷賱賷丞 賴賵 匕賱賰 丕賱爻噩賷賳 -丕賱賲噩乇賲 賯丕胤毓 丕賱胤乇賷賯 - 丕賱匕賷 胤丕賱亘 丕賱賷賴賵丿 亘廿胤賱丕賯 爻乇丕丨賴 賮賷 毓賷丿 丕賱賮氐丨 賵丕賳 賷氐賱亘 丕賱賲爻賷丨
賲丕匕丕 丨丿孬 賱亘丕乇亘丕爻 亘毓丿 匕賱賰 貙 匕賱賰 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 丕賱賱丕賲噩丿賷 賵 丕賱賱丕賲賳鬲賲賷 貙 賲丕匕丕 賷毓賳賷 丕賱丕賷賲丕賳 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賴 貙 賵賴賵 丕賱卮丕賴丿 毓賱賶 丕賱氐賱亘 貙 丕賳賴 賯丿 乇丌賴 丨鬲賶 丕賳賴 乇兀賶 丕賱馗賱賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 爻賵丿鬲 丕賱爻賲丕亍 賮賵賯 乇兀爻賴 賵爻胤 丕賱賳賴丕乇 賱丨馗丞 貙 丕賳賴丕 賲毓噩夭丞 貙 賱賰賳賴丕 賱賷爻鬲 賰匕賱賰 賱亘丕乇亘丕爻 貙 乇亘賲丕 賵賴賲丕 貙 賱丕 丕賳賴丕 賱賷爻鬲 賲毓噩夭丞 貙 丕賳賴丕 卮賷亍 兀禺乇 貙 丨鬲賶 丕賳賴 賯丕亘賱 匕賱賰 丕賱毓丕卅丿 賲賳 賲賲賱賰丞 丕賱賲賵鬲賶 貙 丕賱匕賷 兀丨賷賷 亘毓丿 兀賳 賲丕鬲 貙 乇兀賴 賵 丕賷賯賷賳 丕賳 匕賱賰 丕賱賵噩賴 賵 鬲賱賰 丕賱賷丿 毓乇賮鬲 丕賱賲賵鬲 賯亘賱 匕賱賰 賵禺亘乇鬲賴 貙貙 賱賰賳 丕賷丐賲賳 亘丕乇亘丕爻 責 貙貙 丕賷囟丕 賱丕 貙 毓乇賮 丕鬲亘丕毓賴 丕賱匕賷賳 毓乇賮賵丕 丕賱丕禺乇 賵 毓乇賮 丕賱匕賷賳 兀賲賳賵丕 賵賱賲 賷乇賵賴
貙 賱賰賳 亘丕乇亘丕爻 , 丕賳賴 賷乇賷丿 兀賳 賷丐賲賳 貙 賷丨丕賵賱 兀賳 賷丐賲賳 賱賰賳賴 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 貙 賱丕賳賴 賷乇賷丿 兀賳 賷賮賴賲 丕賵賱丕
賲丕匕丕 丨丿孬 賱亘丕乇亘丕爻 亘毓丿 匕賱賰 貙 匕賱賰 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 丕賱賱丕賲噩丿賷 賵 丕賱賱丕賲賳鬲賲賷 貙 賲丕匕丕 賷毓賳賷 丕賱丕賷賲丕賳 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賴 貙 賵賴賵 丕賱卮丕賴丿 毓賱賶 丕賱氐賱亘 貙 丕賳賴 賯丿 乇丌賴 丨鬲賶 丕賳賴 乇兀賶 丕賱馗賱賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 爻賵丿鬲 丕賱爻賲丕亍 賮賵賯 乇兀爻賴 賵爻胤 丕賱賳賴丕乇 賱丨馗丞 貙 丕賳賴丕 賲毓噩夭丞 貙 賱賰賳賴丕 賱賷爻鬲 賰匕賱賰 賱亘丕乇亘丕爻 貙 乇亘賲丕 賵賴賲丕 貙 賱丕 丕賳賴丕 賱賷爻鬲 賲毓噩夭丞 貙 丕賳賴丕 卮賷亍 兀禺乇 貙 丨鬲賶 丕賳賴 賯丕亘賱 匕賱賰 丕賱毓丕卅丿 賲賳 賲賲賱賰丞 丕賱賲賵鬲賶 貙 丕賱匕賷 兀丨賷賷 亘毓丿 兀賳 賲丕鬲 貙 乇兀賴 賵 丕賷賯賷賳 丕賳 匕賱賰 丕賱賵噩賴 賵 鬲賱賰 丕賱賷丿 毓乇賮鬲 丕賱賲賵鬲 賯亘賱 匕賱賰 賵禺亘乇鬲賴 貙貙 賱賰賳 丕賷丐賲賳 亘丕乇亘丕爻 責 貙貙 丕賷囟丕 賱丕 貙 毓乇賮 丕鬲亘丕毓賴 丕賱匕賷賳 毓乇賮賵丕 丕賱丕禺乇 賵 毓乇賮 丕賱匕賷賳 兀賲賳賵丕 賵賱賲 賷乇賵賴
貙 賱賰賳 亘丕乇亘丕爻 , 丕賳賴 賷乇賷丿 兀賳 賷丐賲賳 貙 賷丨丕賵賱 兀賳 賷丐賲賳 賱賰賳賴 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 貙 賱丕賳賴 賷乇賷丿 兀賳 賷賮賴賲 丕賵賱丕
April 20, 2011
Anyone familiar with the story of Jesus Christ's crucifixion would know who Barabbas was. Pilate wanted to release Jesus, "finding no case against (him)" (John 18:38). So facing the crowd, he invoked a Jewish custom during Passover permitting the release of a prisoner on death row. The people however clamored for the release of Barabbas, a murderer and an insurrectionist, and called for Jesus' crucifixion. Pilate argued for Jesus three times (Luke 23:21-22) but the people were insistent. Their shouts had "increased in violence" so Pilate, an astute politician, relented. Vox populi, vox Dei. It was therefore God ordering (or at least allowing) his own crucifixion--if Jesus was indeed God (contra, The Jesus Mystery: Astonishing Clues to the True Identities of Jesus and Paul by Lena Einhorn which was my very first goodreads review, 10 October 2009). This was one of the perplexing thoughts running through the pages of this book. Then one can also ruminate on these: maybe Barabbas was Adam all over again? A symbol for humanity? He merited death for the crimes he committed. But his life was spared because of the man on the cross. I was hoping the fictional post-crucifixion Barabbas would realize that it was not really that he caused Jesus' death, it was rather that this death spared him his life. But Par Lagerkvist didn't go that way. Maybe he thought that wouldn't be true to Barabbas' character who had no philosophy but only a neverending perplexed agony.
What happened to him after he was released? The Bible does not say. From this void, however, came out this novel of admirable inventiveness and powerful imagination. You'll never be able to guess where Lagerkvist would take Barabbas until the end which was as harrowing as the crucifixion of us all would be. And which will make you ask: is it to God that we talk to when we pray, or is it just the darkness?
"The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness." (Watchmen, Alan Moore).
What happened to him after he was released? The Bible does not say. From this void, however, came out this novel of admirable inventiveness and powerful imagination. You'll never be able to guess where Lagerkvist would take Barabbas until the end which was as harrowing as the crucifixion of us all would be. And which will make you ask: is it to God that we talk to when we pray, or is it just the darkness?
"The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness." (Watchmen, Alan Moore).
July 5, 2024
GERUSALEMME-BETLEMME 0-2
Hanno sempre esercitato un certo fascino su di me i romanzi legati alla passione di Cristo. Mi ero gi脿 dedicato in passato al Pilato di Bulgakov (猫 il pezzo pregiato all鈥檌nterno de Il maestro e Margherita), al Giuda di Berto e al Vangelo secondo il figlio di Mailer. Sul Barabba avevo legittime aspettative e invece circa a met脿 libro, mi son ritrovato a pensare a quella battuta che girava negli anni ottanta:
-Chi volete libero, Ges霉 o Barabba?
-Barabba, Barabba, Barabba...
Va bene, allora Barabba libero e Ges霉 centravanti, ma poi non venite a brontolare se si perde contro il Betlemme
Il libero non esiste pi霉, ora in difesa si gioca a tre in linea, in alcuni casi a due; il nuovo libero 猫 il portiere, uno che nel calcio moderno deve essere pi霉 bravo con i piedi che con le mani, uno che imposta che permette la superiorit脿 numerica e l鈥檃pertura di linee multiple di passaggio. Oggi il libero per eccellenza non 猫 pi霉 Barabba Baresi ma bens矛 Andr猫 Onana.
Il libro mi ha deluso, credo si possa iniziare ad intuirlo. Raramente una prefazione (che le fazioni siano pre o post io le leggo comunque alla fine) 猫 riuscita a spiegarmene cos矛 bene i motivi.
- Lagerkvist conduce il racconto non per trame ma per scene (forse, stazioni), secondo le strutture tradizionali del dramma religioso;
- La pittura svedese di Lagerkvist - che 猫 tutt'uno con l'aspetto teatrale per le ambientazioni, i costumi, le luci, i timbri e i suoni delle colorazioni, ch茅 in questo dramma, naturalmente, musica non c'猫 - 猫 una molto bella commistione di quella italiana d'un Masaccio o d'un Mantegna, con quella, pi霉 brulicante, di certi tedeschi come Altdorfer o Cranach e, da solo, Rembrandt.
(Alessandro Ceni)
Ecco cosa mi ha disturbato: la suddivisione in quadri, in scene teatrali: non 猫 cinema 猫 fumetto; non 猫 flusso di coscienza, sono schizzi di coscienza; non 猫 un tema 猫 un test; Questo libro 猫 un catalogo pi霉 che un romanzo.
P.F. Lagerkvist scrisse Barabba nel 1950, un anno prima di ricevere il Nobel e che lo rivel貌 al grande pubblico.
Bisogna usare cautela con questi Nobel nordici, sembrano assegnati per nepotismo pi霉 che per merito. Mi era gi脿 capitato di pensare qualcosa di simile leggendo il norvegese Knut Hamsun. Se prima a Stoccolma premiavano soprattutto i conterranei, ora per far mostra di essere aperti al mondo han cominciato ad assegnare il premio come se fosse il biglietto vincente di una lotteria, cio猫 pi霉 o meno a caso. L鈥檈quivoco (parlo per me) penso nasca dal fatto che il Nobel io vorrei vederlo assegnato a qualcuno che scrive e scrive meglio degli altri, non ad un musico, ad un teatrante, ad un kamikaze giapponese mancato. Ma 猫 appunto un equivoco e qui in maniera sintetica 猫 spiegato il perch茅
Il Barabba di Lagerkvist 猫 un personaggio di totale invenzione, qui inizia e finisce il merito del suo creatore. Se Alessandro Ceni ha visto giusto, gli amanti della pittura potrebbero apprezzare i quadri presenti in questo catalogo meglio di come sono stato in grado di fare io.
Hanno sempre esercitato un certo fascino su di me i romanzi legati alla passione di Cristo. Mi ero gi脿 dedicato in passato al Pilato di Bulgakov (猫 il pezzo pregiato all鈥檌nterno de Il maestro e Margherita), al Giuda di Berto e al Vangelo secondo il figlio di Mailer. Sul Barabba avevo legittime aspettative e invece circa a met脿 libro, mi son ritrovato a pensare a quella battuta che girava negli anni ottanta:
-Chi volete libero, Ges霉 o Barabba?
-Barabba, Barabba, Barabba...
Va bene, allora Barabba libero e Ges霉 centravanti, ma poi non venite a brontolare se si perde contro il Betlemme
Il libero non esiste pi霉, ora in difesa si gioca a tre in linea, in alcuni casi a due; il nuovo libero 猫 il portiere, uno che nel calcio moderno deve essere pi霉 bravo con i piedi che con le mani, uno che imposta che permette la superiorit脿 numerica e l鈥檃pertura di linee multiple di passaggio. Oggi il libero per eccellenza non 猫 pi霉 Barabba Baresi ma bens矛 Andr猫 Onana.
Il libro mi ha deluso, credo si possa iniziare ad intuirlo. Raramente una prefazione (che le fazioni siano pre o post io le leggo comunque alla fine) 猫 riuscita a spiegarmene cos矛 bene i motivi.
- Lagerkvist conduce il racconto non per trame ma per scene (forse, stazioni), secondo le strutture tradizionali del dramma religioso;
- La pittura svedese di Lagerkvist - che 猫 tutt'uno con l'aspetto teatrale per le ambientazioni, i costumi, le luci, i timbri e i suoni delle colorazioni, ch茅 in questo dramma, naturalmente, musica non c'猫 - 猫 una molto bella commistione di quella italiana d'un Masaccio o d'un Mantegna, con quella, pi霉 brulicante, di certi tedeschi come Altdorfer o Cranach e, da solo, Rembrandt.
(Alessandro Ceni)
Ecco cosa mi ha disturbato: la suddivisione in quadri, in scene teatrali: non 猫 cinema 猫 fumetto; non 猫 flusso di coscienza, sono schizzi di coscienza; non 猫 un tema 猫 un test; Questo libro 猫 un catalogo pi霉 che un romanzo.
P.F. Lagerkvist scrisse Barabba nel 1950, un anno prima di ricevere il Nobel e che lo rivel貌 al grande pubblico.
Bisogna usare cautela con questi Nobel nordici, sembrano assegnati per nepotismo pi霉 che per merito. Mi era gi脿 capitato di pensare qualcosa di simile leggendo il norvegese Knut Hamsun. Se prima a Stoccolma premiavano soprattutto i conterranei, ora per far mostra di essere aperti al mondo han cominciato ad assegnare il premio come se fosse il biglietto vincente di una lotteria, cio猫 pi霉 o meno a caso. L鈥檈quivoco (parlo per me) penso nasca dal fatto che il Nobel io vorrei vederlo assegnato a qualcuno che scrive e scrive meglio degli altri, non ad un musico, ad un teatrante, ad un kamikaze giapponese mancato. Ma 猫 appunto un equivoco e qui in maniera sintetica 猫 spiegato il perch茅
Il Barabba di Lagerkvist 猫 un personaggio di totale invenzione, qui inizia e finisce il merito del suo creatore. Se Alessandro Ceni ha visto giusto, gli amanti della pittura potrebbero apprezzare i quadri presenti in questo catalogo meglio di come sono stato in grado di fare io.
November 19, 2017
E鈥� stato scritto che tutta l'opera di Lagerkvist sembra scossa dall鈥檜rto dell'esigenza di significato e consiste in un鈥檕scillazione tra fede e dubbio: sempre a un passo da Dio, ora pregato, implorato e, subito dopo, avvertito come impossibile. Questo Dio sfuggente 猫 costantemente presente nell鈥檕pera di Lagerkvist, esplorato in tutte le sue possibili concezioni e rappresentazioni, con accanimento e con profondit脿 vertiginosa.
In questo romanzo la figura di Barabba 猫 contraddittoria: egli agisce come entit脿 autonoma, concepisce solo se stesso e nessun altro; non sa fidarsi di quel che vede, n茅 tantomeno legarsi a qualcuno. A un uomo come lui accade di incontrare Cristo. Non Lo capisce, ma ne 猫 segnato per sempre. Non si potr脿 mai pi霉 togliere di dosso il volto dell鈥橴omo che lo ha incomprensibilmente salvato. Incontrer脿 poi Pietro e i discepoli, ma niente e nessuno lo distoglier脿 dalle sue ambiguit脿.
Cos矛 da Gerusalemme, passando per Cipro, Barabba giunge a Roma. Il 18 luglio del 64 scambia le fiamme dell鈥檌ncendio della capitale per il segno del ritorno di Cristo. Arrestato, incontra nelle carceri Pietro e gli altri, che Nerone ha accusato di essere gli autori del disastro e con loro, ma separato da loro, attende di essere giustiziato.
Quando sent矛 appressarsi la morte, della quale aveva sempre avuto tanta paura, disse nell鈥檕scurit脿, come se parlasse con essa: 鈥淎 te raccomando l鈥檃nima mia鈥�. Ed esal貌 lo spirito.
Le stesse parole che aveva sentito tanti anni prima, quando 鈥� in disparte, come sempre 鈥� fu testimone della crocifissione di Cristo.
In questo romanzo la figura di Barabba 猫 contraddittoria: egli agisce come entit脿 autonoma, concepisce solo se stesso e nessun altro; non sa fidarsi di quel che vede, n茅 tantomeno legarsi a qualcuno. A un uomo come lui accade di incontrare Cristo. Non Lo capisce, ma ne 猫 segnato per sempre. Non si potr脿 mai pi霉 togliere di dosso il volto dell鈥橴omo che lo ha incomprensibilmente salvato. Incontrer脿 poi Pietro e i discepoli, ma niente e nessuno lo distoglier脿 dalle sue ambiguit脿.
Cos矛 da Gerusalemme, passando per Cipro, Barabba giunge a Roma. Il 18 luglio del 64 scambia le fiamme dell鈥檌ncendio della capitale per il segno del ritorno di Cristo. Arrestato, incontra nelle carceri Pietro e gli altri, che Nerone ha accusato di essere gli autori del disastro e con loro, ma separato da loro, attende di essere giustiziato.
Quando sent矛 appressarsi la morte, della quale aveva sempre avuto tanta paura, disse nell鈥檕scurit脿, come se parlasse con essa: 鈥淎 te raccomando l鈥檃nima mia鈥�. Ed esal貌 lo spirito.
Le stesse parole che aveva sentito tanti anni prima, quando 鈥� in disparte, come sempre 鈥� fu testimone della crocifissione di Cristo.
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October 7, 2018
A short tale involving Barabbas, the thief who was pardoned so that Jesus could be crucified. It follows him through his life after the pardon, as he witnesses at first hand the rise of the cult of Jesus as it develops from an obscure Jewish sect into a faith that will threaten and eventually subvert the mighty Roman empire.
Whilst not a believer, time and time again Barabbas is drawn to the persecuted group, fascinated as to why a man's life and death could evoke such devotion and sacrifice. In the end he is swept up in a round of persecution and dies with a group of Christians.
Throughout the story Barabbas is portrayed as an outsider, cursed by what he is, what he has done and what he has witnessed. After what he has seen - a seemingly normal person suffering the agony of crucifixion - how can he believe in Jesus as the son of god? Despite this he finds the fervent belief of others very powerful.
A simple tale well told. I found it a good book, worth exploring.
Whilst not a believer, time and time again Barabbas is drawn to the persecuted group, fascinated as to why a man's life and death could evoke such devotion and sacrifice. In the end he is swept up in a round of persecution and dies with a group of Christians.
Throughout the story Barabbas is portrayed as an outsider, cursed by what he is, what he has done and what he has witnessed. After what he has seen - a seemingly normal person suffering the agony of crucifixion - how can he believe in Jesus as the son of god? Despite this he finds the fervent belief of others very powerful.
A simple tale well told. I found it a good book, worth exploring.
April 28, 2023
Amazing. Simply amazing.
There it is and there you have it.
There it is and there you have it.
October 1, 2022
Mislim da nema hri拧膰anskih vernika (ali i ateista kao ja, koji se interesuju za sve) koji ne zna ko je Baraba (Ili Varava) 鈥� to je 膷ovek koji je oslobo膽en krivice umesto Isusa Hrista . Samim tim je i jedina osoba zbog koje je Isus Hrist bukvalno umro. 艩ta se s njim dogodilo nakon 拧to je pu拧ten, Biblija ne ka啪e. Iz te praznine je, me膽utim, Lagerkvist sklopio ovaj roman zadivljuju膰e inventivnosti i ma拧te, za Barabu je stvorio 膷itav jedan 啪ivot. Po拧to Baraba 啪ivi zato 拧to je Isus umro za njega, on ima vrlo direktnu vezu sa njim, bli啪i je Hristu od bilo koga drugog i ne mo啪e da ga izbaci iz glave, iako ga nikad nije upoznao, a video ga je tek pre nego 拧to je na krstu na Golgoti ispustio du拧u u mukama. Dva totalno suprotna karaktera: Isus, okru啪en svojim u膷enicima i majkom koji sa tugom i suzama u o膷ima gledaju njegovu mu膷eni膷ku i dobrovoljnu smrt, nejgovu 啪rtvu za spas 膷ove膷anstva i 拧ire njegovui poruku o ljubavi i nakon njegove smrti i Baraba 鈥� pun mr啪nje, nasilan, grub, razbojnik, ubica, nesposoban za dublje emocije. Njegov otac je bio razbojnik, majka ga je rodila proklinju膰i svet koji je Isus trebao blagosloviti. Ali, njihovi se putevi ukr拧tavaju i Baraba ne zna 拧to bi sam sa sobom. U glavi mu odzvanjaju re膷i 鈥濴jubi bli啪njega svoga鈥� nakon 拧to mu je njegova dru啪benica Ze膷ja Usta objasnila smisao U膷iteljovog u膷enja. 艩ta je ljubav mogla zna膷iti za Barabu kojeg je mrzela 膷ak i njegova majka od trenutka kada je prvi put udahnuo? Koji nikada nije osetio nikakvu emocionalnu vezu sa drugim ljudskim bi膰em? Ipak u njemu postoji ta 啪udnja 鈥� da veruje u ne拧to, da veruje u Isusovo u膷enje. Ali, stalno se vra膰a na pitanja koja ga zbunjuju, mu膷e: 鈥濵esija koji bi dozvolio da bude razapet... Ko je ve膰 膷uo ovako ne拧to?... Koji su to lu膽aci koji veruju u takve stvari?鈥�. Za拧to prihvatiti smrt, kome bi ova smrt koristila? Odgovor u膷enika ga ne zadovoljava. A on to ne mo啪e ni da razume: Isus je 鈥瀗evino stradao i umro umesto nas... krivi smo mi [ljudi], a ne on鈥�.
On je skepti膷an pojedinac, toliko bi 啪eleo da veruje, ali ne mo啪e. Ne mo啪ete da verujete u ne拧to prosto jer to 啪elite. Vera nije odluka. Barabu ne ube膽uje nijedna pri膷a, nijedan dokaz. Pose膰uje Lazara, vaskrslog posle 膷etiri dana nakon smrti, i dobija zadivljuju膰i odgovor: 鈥濻matra拧 li da bi trebao da ti pri膷am o carstvu smrti? Ne mogu tako ne拧to. Carstvo smrti je ni拧ta. Postoji 鈥� ali je ni拧ta鈥�.
Zavr拧i kao rob u rudniku bakra. Uz Sahaka, hri拧膰anina, 膷oveka koji je s njim osu膽en da bude zajedno na lancu, u膷i da se moli, ali odustaje nakon nekog vremena, jer ne razume smisao molitve. Sahak je izveden iz rudnika i zahteva da se i Baraba oslobodi, misle膰i da je i on sledbenik Hrista. Postaju ku膰ni robovi rimskog tu啪ioca, prate ga 膷ak u Rim. Opsesija da prona膽e odgovor ga ne napu拧ta.
Lagrekvist u knjizi istra啪uje i prirodu vere, pitanja vere i sujeverja. Spominju se gubavci i robovi koji 啪eljno i拧膷ekuju pojavu Mesije, a samim tim nadaju se na bolji 啪ivot. Ovi ljudi iz ni啪ih klasa koji nemaju drugog na膷ina da se sprave sa mukotrpnim 啪ivotom, spremni su da se uhvate za sve 拧to im daje nadu. A usred svega, Baraba stoji sam, uzaludno poku拧avaju膰i da se izbori sa sumnjom i 啪eljom u sebi.
鈥炩€淛a nemam boga鈥�, odgovorio je na kraju Varava...
鈥淶a拧to onda nosi拧 ovo 鈥濱sus Hristos鈥� urezan na svom disku?鈥�
鈥淶ato 拧to 啪elim da verujem鈥�, rekao je Varava...鈥�
Hteo je da veruje. Ali ipak nije razumeo.
On je skepti膷an pojedinac, toliko bi 啪eleo da veruje, ali ne mo啪e. Ne mo啪ete da verujete u ne拧to prosto jer to 啪elite. Vera nije odluka. Barabu ne ube膽uje nijedna pri膷a, nijedan dokaz. Pose膰uje Lazara, vaskrslog posle 膷etiri dana nakon smrti, i dobija zadivljuju膰i odgovor: 鈥濻matra拧 li da bi trebao da ti pri膷am o carstvu smrti? Ne mogu tako ne拧to. Carstvo smrti je ni拧ta. Postoji 鈥� ali je ni拧ta鈥�.
Zavr拧i kao rob u rudniku bakra. Uz Sahaka, hri拧膰anina, 膷oveka koji je s njim osu膽en da bude zajedno na lancu, u膷i da se moli, ali odustaje nakon nekog vremena, jer ne razume smisao molitve. Sahak je izveden iz rudnika i zahteva da se i Baraba oslobodi, misle膰i da je i on sledbenik Hrista. Postaju ku膰ni robovi rimskog tu啪ioca, prate ga 膷ak u Rim. Opsesija da prona膽e odgovor ga ne napu拧ta.
Lagrekvist u knjizi istra啪uje i prirodu vere, pitanja vere i sujeverja. Spominju se gubavci i robovi koji 啪eljno i拧膷ekuju pojavu Mesije, a samim tim nadaju se na bolji 啪ivot. Ovi ljudi iz ni啪ih klasa koji nemaju drugog na膷ina da se sprave sa mukotrpnim 啪ivotom, spremni su da se uhvate za sve 拧to im daje nadu. A usred svega, Baraba stoji sam, uzaludno poku拧avaju膰i da se izbori sa sumnjom i 啪eljom u sebi.
鈥炩€淛a nemam boga鈥�, odgovorio je na kraju Varava...
鈥淶a拧to onda nosi拧 ovo 鈥濱sus Hristos鈥� urezan na svom disku?鈥�
鈥淶ato 拧to 啪elim da verujem鈥�, rekao je Varava...鈥�
Hteo je da veruje. Ali ipak nije razumeo.
June 10, 2017
Barabbas is an addition to the new testament written by an atheist. It is far more likely to please those who have fallen away from the faith than someone who is a believer.
The person of Barabbas is a very familiar figure to anyone with a Christian upbringing. The story of Christ's passion is read every year on Palm Sunday and on Good Friday. Thus you hear the story twice a year how Pilate tells the crowd that they have the right to obtain the pardon of one condemned man every year and suggests that they request it for Jesus. Instead, the crowd asks that Barabbas a common bandit be pardoned. Jesus of course cannot be the one to receive the pardon, because he came into the world to be crucified. For this reason Barabbas survives.
The first time that a child hears the story, he or she is shocked. The second time, the child wants to know what happened to Barabbas afterwards. This is the great hook that Lagerkvist uses so brilliantly. Everyone wants to know what happened to Barabbas including those who should not. An adult who is believes in Christ understands that some mysteries will never be revealed to us during our lives on this earth. Reading Barabbas is then a very impious exercise.
Lagerkvist however plays the game very well. He understands that his reader wants to know what purpose God had in mind for Barabbas. Was he supposed to be simply an unwitting collaborator in the scheme to crucify Christ? Did Barabbas ever come to believe in Christ? Was he saved?
Lagerkvist's Barabbas wants to believe in Christ but his nature prevents him from accepting a God who preaches love and forgiveness. Barabbas wants rough justice. When a crowd stones a follower of Christ, Barabbas responds by murdering the person who threw the first stone. When Nero starts a fire in Rome with the purpose of blaming it on the Christian, Barabbas rushes out with a torch to set houses alight.
Barabbas is arrested and crucified. His final utterance however is cryptic. The reader cannot be sure whether Barabbas has indeed embraced Christ (albeit in a very perverse fashion) or if he has committed himself to a different more violent God. The ending this is both ambiguous and dishonest. After having lured the reader in with the promise of telling the story of Barabbas, Lagerkvist finally chooses not to tell the reader what happened to him at the end.
The person of Barabbas is a very familiar figure to anyone with a Christian upbringing. The story of Christ's passion is read every year on Palm Sunday and on Good Friday. Thus you hear the story twice a year how Pilate tells the crowd that they have the right to obtain the pardon of one condemned man every year and suggests that they request it for Jesus. Instead, the crowd asks that Barabbas a common bandit be pardoned. Jesus of course cannot be the one to receive the pardon, because he came into the world to be crucified. For this reason Barabbas survives.
The first time that a child hears the story, he or she is shocked. The second time, the child wants to know what happened to Barabbas afterwards. This is the great hook that Lagerkvist uses so brilliantly. Everyone wants to know what happened to Barabbas including those who should not. An adult who is believes in Christ understands that some mysteries will never be revealed to us during our lives on this earth. Reading Barabbas is then a very impious exercise.
Lagerkvist however plays the game very well. He understands that his reader wants to know what purpose God had in mind for Barabbas. Was he supposed to be simply an unwitting collaborator in the scheme to crucify Christ? Did Barabbas ever come to believe in Christ? Was he saved?
Lagerkvist's Barabbas wants to believe in Christ but his nature prevents him from accepting a God who preaches love and forgiveness. Barabbas wants rough justice. When a crowd stones a follower of Christ, Barabbas responds by murdering the person who threw the first stone. When Nero starts a fire in Rome with the purpose of blaming it on the Christian, Barabbas rushes out with a torch to set houses alight.
Barabbas is arrested and crucified. His final utterance however is cryptic. The reader cannot be sure whether Barabbas has indeed embraced Christ (albeit in a very perverse fashion) or if he has committed himself to a different more violent God. The ending this is both ambiguous and dishonest. After having lured the reader in with the promise of telling the story of Barabbas, Lagerkvist finally chooses not to tell the reader what happened to him at the end.
January 23, 2015
乇賵丕賷丞 賯氐賷乇丞 賵賱賰賳賴丕 賰賮賷賱丞 亘鬲毓乇賷賮 丕賱賯丕乇卅 毓賱賶 卮禺氐賷丞 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 賵 賴賵 丕賱爻噩賷賳 丕賱匕賷 兀購胤賱賯 爻乇丕丨賴 賵 氐購賱亘 ( 賷爻賵毓 丕賱賳丕氐乇賷) 丕賱賳亘賷 毓賷爻賶 毓賱賷賴 丕賱爻賱丕賲 亘丿賱賸丕 賲賳賴貙 爻鬲鬲毓乇賮 賲賳 禺賱丕賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 兀賷囟賸丕 毓賱賶 丨賯亘丞 賲賴賲丞 賵 賲賮氐賱賷丞 賮賷 丕賱賳卮兀丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 賱賱丿賷丕賳丞 丕賱賲爻賷丨賷丞 鬲賲孬賱鬲 賮賷 丕賱鬲毓丕囟丿 丕賱乇賵丨賷 亘賷賳 賲毓鬲賳賯賷 丕賱丿賷賳 丕賱賲爻賷丨賷 乇睾賲 毓丿賲 鬲賯亘賱 賳夭毓鬲賴賲 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞 賱丕 賲賳 賯亘賱 丕賱乇賵賲丕賳 賵賱丕 丕賱賷賴賵丿 賵 賴賲 賰丕賳賵丕 賵噩賵賴 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱賲賴賲丞 丌賳匕丕賰貙 賰丕賳 丕賱賲爻賷丨賷賵賳 賷賲賴丿賵賳 賮賷賲丕 亘賷賳賴賲 賱丿賷賳賴賲 亘丕賱鬲賱丕丨賲 丨賵賱 賲亘丕丿卅 丕賱賲爻賷丨 賵 賷噩丕夭賮賵賳 亘兀乇賵丕丨賴賲 賵 賷禺鬲丕乇賵賳 胤賵毓賸丕 - 賰兀賷 賲毓鬲賳賯 賱丿賷丕賳丞 噩丿賷丿丞- 丕賱丿賷賳 毓賱賶 兀賳賴 丕賱賲賳賮賶 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 亘丿 賲賳 鬲賯亘賱 賲乇丕乇鬲賴 賵 毓亘賵乇賴 賲賴賲丕 賰丕賳 丨噩賲 丕賱禺胤乇貙 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 賰丕賳 丕賱丕賲鬲丨丕賳 丕賱氐毓亘 賱賷爻 賱賳賮爻賴 賮賯胤 亘賱 賱賰賱 賲爻賷丨賷 賮賷 匕賱賰 丕賱毓賴丿貙 賮亘賷賳賲丕 賰丕賳 賲鬲禺賳丿賯 賮賷 鬲賷賴賴 亘賷賳 丕賱廿賷賲丕賳 亘賳亘賵丞 丕賱賲爻賷丨 賵丕賱廿賱丨丕丿 亘丿賱丕卅賱 賳亘賵鬲賴 賵丕賱鬲賷 乇丌賴丕 亘兀賲 丕賱毓賷賳 貙氐丕乇 賲噩乇丿 匕賰乇 丕爻賲賴 丕賲鬲丨丕賳 賱賯賱賵亘 丕賱賲爻賷丨賷賳 廿匕 賴賱 賷賯丿乇賵賳 毓賱賶 鬲胤亘賷賯 卮毓丕乇 丕賱賲爻賷丨 ( 賱賷丨亘 兀丨丿賰賲 丕賱丌禺乇) 丨鬲賶 賲毓 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱匕賷 鬲賲 丕爻鬲亘丿丕賱賴 亘丕賱賲爻賷丨 毓賱賶 丕賱氐賱賷亘責 賴賱 賷鬲睾賷乇 廿賷賲丕賳賴賲 亘賲亘丕丿卅 丕賱賲爻賷丨 賮賷 鬲毓丕賲賱賴賲 賲毓 丕賱氐丿賷賯 毓賳賴 賲毓 丕賱毓丿賵 兀賲 賴賵 爻丕乇賷 丕賱賲賮毓賵賱 賮賷 丕賱丨丕賱鬲賷賳責 毓丿賵賹 賮賷賴 毓賽亘乇 丕賱丿賳賷丕 賲孬賱 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 賮賴賵 賯丕鬲賱 兀亘賵賴 廿賱賷丕賴賵 賵 賯丿賯鬲賱 丕賱毓丿賷丿 賲賳 丕賱賳丕爻 賰匕賱賰 賵賲孬賱 亘噩孬孬賴賲 賵 爻乇賯 賵 毓丕孬 賮賷 丕賱兀乇囟 丕賱賮爻丕丿! 賴賱 爻賷鬲賯亘賱 丕賱賲爻賷丨賷賵賳 鬲賵亘鬲賴 亘毓丿 廿賷賲丕賳 賲鬲匕亘匕亘 賰丕賳 賷鬲氐丕乇毓 丿丕禺賱賴 責 鬲丨賯賯鬲 賳亘賵亍丞 丕賱賲爻賷丨 亘兀賳賴 爻賷鬲毓匕亘 賵 賷賯鬲賱 賲賳 兀噩賱 丕鬲亘丕毓賴 賵亘毓丿賴丕 爻賷賯賵賲 賲賳 噩丿賷丿貙 兀鬲亘丕毓賴 賷丐賲賳賵賳 亘丕賱賯丿乇 丕賱匕賷 爻賷賱丕賯賷賴 賰賲丕 兀禺亘乇賴賲 賱賰賳 亘賱賵賲賴賲 賵賳亘匕賴賲 賱亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 賵賵氐賮賴賲 廿賷丕賴 亘丕賱卮乇賷乇 鬲賳丕賯囟 亘賷賳 丕賱賲氐丿賯 亘賰賱賲丕鬲 丕賱賲爻賷丨 毓賳 賯丿乇賴 賵 亘賷賳 丕賱賲鬲鬲亘毓 賱賱睾乇賷夭丞 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳賷丞 丨丿 丕賱噩賴丕賱丞 賮賷 鬲賯乇賷毓 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 !
匕乇賵丞 廿亘丿丕毓 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 :
賰賱賲丕鬲 賳亘賷 丕賱賱賴 賵賴賵 賲毓賱賯 毓賱賶 丕賱氐賱賷亘 賵 丕賱廿馗賱丕賲 賷毓賲賷 丕賱亘氐乇 賵 賷賮鬲丨 丕賱亘氐丕卅乇 :
廿賱賴賷 .. 廿賱賴賷 .. 賱賲丕 鬲乇賰鬲賳賷責
( 賰賱賲丕鬲 鬲賳丕賮賷 賰賲丕賱 丕賱乇亘賵亘賷丞 賮賴賷 廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 丨賯賷賯賷丞 賲卮賰賰丞 賲賳 賮賲 丕賱賳亘賷 爻鬲購氐毓亘 賲賴賲丞 丕賱賲毓鬲賳賯 賱丿賷丕賳丞 噩丿賷丿丞 賷亘卮乇 賱賴丕 丨鬲賲賸丕貙 賵賴賷 賲丿毓丕丞 賱賱鬲兀賲賱 鬲賲賳賷鬲 賱賵 兀賮爻丨 賱賴丕 賲噩丕賱丕賸 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 )
賰賱賲丕鬲 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 賵賴賵 賲毓賱賯 毓賱賶 丕賱氐賱賷亘 賵 賷禺丕胤亘 丕賱馗賱丕賲 丕賱匕賷 爻賷鬲賱賯賮 乇賵丨賴 :
廿賱賷賰 兀爻賱賲 乇賵丨賷 ..
( 賲丕 丕賱匕賷 丕賳鬲氐乇 賮賷 亘丕乇丕亘丕爻 賮賷 賳賴丕賷丞 賷賵賲賴 責禺賷乇 丕賱睾丿 兀賲 卮乇賴責 )
賴賱 孬賲丞 賳爻亘丞 卮賰 賮賷 賰賱 賷賯賷賳 賲賴賲丕 賰丕賳 賯賵賷賸丕責 賵孬賲丞 賷賯賷賳 賮賷 賯賱亘 賰賱 卮賰 責
April 18, 2013
Simplicity can be a great advantage in telling a story. Many great writers have used very spartan ways, and still left an impression far from one-dimensional. Doing this is tricky. It includes using little to tell a lot, there has to be something lurking underneath, a richness for the reader to decipher. Here starts the trouble I have with Barabbas. It is not only written sparingly, but doesn't really seem to hold more than the bare words that are strung together.
When picking this book from the shelf, I was looking for a portrait of the psychological torments a man like Barabbas might go through. I think I was hoping for something along the lines of Bulgakov's portrayal of Pontius Pilatus. I'm very intrigued by religious and psychological themes, and the story of Barabbas sounded tainted with the guilt of being alive, the trauma of having nearly been crucified, and an unhealthy obsession with the man who was sacrificed in his place. These things are somewhat brought up, but only in passing. The story moves quickly, Lagerkvist doesn't linger on nearly anything, and we do not learn much about the inner world of Barabbas. Lagerkvist almost seems uninterested. The book simply feels drained of enthusiasm, wonder, or curiosity. Things happen, but we don't register them, there is no importance applied to anything, and you can't help but wonder what Lagerkvist is here to tell.
The other problem I had with this book is the way of writing. It is very repetitive, but doesn't seem to be so in any intentional way. The same words are used again and again, and without any apparent (aesthetic or other) reason. Rather, this makes the book feel unimaginative, and again, uninspired. I don't feel as if I'm taking anything with me from reading this book. I guess I just long too much for fleshed-out psychological discussion (especially paired with religion and its impact). Unfortunately, it seems like I will have to look for this somewhere else.
When picking this book from the shelf, I was looking for a portrait of the psychological torments a man like Barabbas might go through. I think I was hoping for something along the lines of Bulgakov's portrayal of Pontius Pilatus. I'm very intrigued by religious and psychological themes, and the story of Barabbas sounded tainted with the guilt of being alive, the trauma of having nearly been crucified, and an unhealthy obsession with the man who was sacrificed in his place. These things are somewhat brought up, but only in passing. The story moves quickly, Lagerkvist doesn't linger on nearly anything, and we do not learn much about the inner world of Barabbas. Lagerkvist almost seems uninterested. The book simply feels drained of enthusiasm, wonder, or curiosity. Things happen, but we don't register them, there is no importance applied to anything, and you can't help but wonder what Lagerkvist is here to tell.
The other problem I had with this book is the way of writing. It is very repetitive, but doesn't seem to be so in any intentional way. The same words are used again and again, and without any apparent (aesthetic or other) reason. Rather, this makes the book feel unimaginative, and again, uninspired. I don't feel as if I'm taking anything with me from reading this book. I guess I just long too much for fleshed-out psychological discussion (especially paired with religion and its impact). Unfortunately, it seems like I will have to look for this somewhere else.
June 21, 2013
Like a lost gnostic gospel (The Gospel of Christ according to Barabbas?), this novel strums the chords of belief, regret, yearning and loss. Using the death and resurrection of Christ as the backdrop for the released prisoner Barabbas's story is clever and there are many unique and ineresting fictions created by Lagerkvist to tell his hero's tale.
It might have been the translation, but Lagerkvist's writing style didn't resonate with me at all. I'm not ready to give up on him; I'll try a couple of his other works with different translators before moving on.
It might have been the translation, but Lagerkvist's writing style didn't resonate with me at all. I'm not ready to give up on him; I'll try a couple of his other works with different translators before moving on.
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