“This book is sacrilege.” That is what Bernard Lecomte, biographer of John Paul II, consecrated Vatican historian, considered, and so that there were no doubts he added that “centuries ago this lady Amélie Nothomb would have been condemned to the stake.” He was not the only one who attacked “such blasphemy made book”. And all because the Belgian writer (another great forgotten of the Swedish Academy) had dared to tell from a current vision and language the trial and execution of Jesus. A Jesus who, having been incarnated, chooses to be human, since he is. He is a Jesus who loves Mary Magdalene with an intense and full love, whom he calls by a nickname as lovers call his beloved, and when he is resurrected he is the first person he seeks to embrace her and discover that “nothing alters our fervor ”. It is, in turn, the different love for his mother and the suffering for the son he had, accepting that he really was who he was. It is the meeting with his followers and the discussions with Judas. It is Jesus dismayed before the testimonies of the people he helped with miracles and now they treat him as selfish, a magician and a fraud. It is the annoyance of Pontius Pilate with those witnesses “who irritated him in what remained to him of being rational.” A Jesus who praises Proust in passing and quotes Valery. A Jesus who regrets carrying the cross and suffers on the crucifixion, and who reflects again from the resurrection on being, time, existence, desire, love.
Source: Ambito
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