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'Dazzling, gritty brilliance. This is a novel of scorching distinction' Sunday Times Under an endless and unforgiving sky, four travellers enter the Judean desert in search of redemption. Instead, amidst the barren rocks, they are met by a dangerous man, Musa, and fall under his dark influence. But there is a fervent, solitary figure also sharing their landscape, denying the temptations of his neighbours, and, ultimately, the needs of his own body. So begin forty days and nights in one of the most inhospitable terrains on earth. 'One of the finest novels I've read in years' The Times 'Completely captivating' Literary Review 'Absolutely compelling' Observer 'Stunning. A writer of hallucinatory skill' John Updike
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炎熱と酷寒の荒野に無垢の情熱の行方を追い、イエスと断食者たちの四十日を描いて、生の充実と救済を問う。混沌とした現代に静かな福音を告げるとともに、宗教という現代的主題を描く。
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1 人中、1人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
形式:ペーパーバック
Who is Jesus Christ? And is he a real person? Many people who are associated with the religion may say to themselves once. The novel may tell the answer. The author has created a vivid and
really new views on the problems and may show them a heartfelt protagonist as Jesus Christ.
The title, Quarantine means the famous fast period that Jesus Christ had for 40 days. In the novel the hero, young boy Jesus soon dies from starvation. But with unexpected ways he appears
as an apparition or a vision before some people who are doing fast at the same place and time.
most interesting point of this novel is following. Jesus is not narrated as a great man such as
a son of God. He is, so to speak, entirely an ordinary boy. By following the story, readers can
be convinced of real Jesus Christ. In the last scene you may be made a profound impression on
your soul. In addition elaborate background research in the novel is outstanding. Read this!
really new views on the problems and may show them a heartfelt protagonist as Jesus Christ.
The title, Quarantine means the famous fast period that Jesus Christ had for 40 days. In the novel the hero, young boy Jesus soon dies from starvation. But with unexpected ways he appears
as an apparition or a vision before some people who are doing fast at the same place and time.
most interesting point of this novel is following. Jesus is not narrated as a great man such as
a son of God. He is, so to speak, entirely an ordinary boy. By following the story, readers can
be convinced of real Jesus Christ. In the last scene you may be made a profound impression on
your soul. In addition elaborate background research in the novel is outstanding. Read this!
Amazon.com で最も参考になったカスタマーレビュー (beta)
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33 人中、30人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Astounding. Bizarre. Upsetting.
2000/8/9
形式:ペーパーバック
Jim Crace is one of the finest writers working in English today--each of his rather brief books manages to fashion vivid, tangible worlds in the sparest, most succint prose. Aside from his most recent work, the miraculous "Being Dead", this is his best effort, a hallucinatory trip to the wind-swept, barren wilderness of ancient Palestine. Though each of the seven human characters here is compelling and fully developed in his or her own right, it is the landscape--bleak, timeless, deadly--that is the star of this show. Crace has so fully researched and imagined this place that we come away feeling as if we, too, have been there, suffered through a most grueling and unusual quarantine that begins and ends with a miracle and is rife with dangers--seen and unseen--throughout. Much has been made of the portrayal of Jesus here. To be sure, this is not the sort of book that fundamenalist Christians will be clambering to buy. What we get is a young, naive, incredibly obstinate man who suffers unnecessarily (or so it seems), dies a gruesome death and then, in the book's final, deeply unsettling pages, walks away from the desert, even as his husk of a body lies in a tomb. What exactly is going on here? It's hard to tell--Crace is not a big one on spelling things out for the reader--but one can draw the conclusion that Jesus had to die in the desert both spiritually (as in the Gospels) AND physically before he could begin his mission. There are serious implications for theologians in all of this, but this general reader was more haunted by the imagery than troubled by Crace's unorthodox and truly weird tampering with tradition. Among the supporting cast, the most interesting characters are the two women--the infertile, intelligent Marta and the subserviant, pregnant Miri who, we are lead to believe, might become the famous Martha and Mary of St. John's Lazarus story (something to keep in mind while reading this book, I think.) The warm, deeply human bond that brings these women together is touching indeed, and adds context to the mystical, dream-like passages that leave the reader off-balance, in a world that's as unfamiliar to us as it is real. Crace is a genius, what more can one say, and this strange, upsetting, beautiful little novel deserves the attention of all serious readers.
15 人中、15人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Intelligent and emotional
2000/2/16
形式:ペーパーバック
"Quarantine" presents the story of a group of people who are changed by their experiences in the harsh desert of the Middle East. Fascinating from a historical and religious standpoint, this novel succeeds in creating a cast of unique characters and infusing the story with a compelling, complicated group dynamic. While Jesus is not the main character, his deep conflict and physical struggles are fascinating, as is his final transformation from child prophet into the son of God. Still, he is just one of a number of truly compelling characters which make up the heart and soul of this novel. The conclusion is wonderful. Each of the characters is (in one way or another) freed from the troubles that have haunted them, and their journey continues in another direction. This is a slow book, but it is definitely worth reading.
12 人中、12人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
An original perspective on Jesus in the desert
2000/6/22
形式:ペーパーバック
Although Jesus is not the main character in 'Quarantine', his presence imbues the narrative and propels, in a subtle yet powerful way, the actions of all the other characters in the novel. His presence, however, is all too human, and his so-called temptations are mostly the product of his fertile religious fantasizing and more prosaic causes. 'Quarantine' thus provides a different and original perspective on Jesus in the desert, one that is thoroughly believable and enjoyble because of the ironies involved.
To me, the truly commanding figure in 'Quarantine' is Musa, an unscrupulous merchant with a twisted Midas touch. His abusiveness, greediness, and manipulations let the other characters--his submissive wife, an ailing Jewish old man, an arrogant Greek is search of enlightment, a barren woman in search of fertily, and a simpleton--manifest themselves in their hopes and disappointments. Moreover, he is the one who, in his own obsession (a product of a serendipitous act), constantly tempts Jesus with comfort and food. In other words, Musa is the necessary evil through which the lives of the other characters, and the 'holiness' of Jesus, acquire meaning.
The language of the entire novel is superb and effortless, giving a sense of fluidity that at times hides the intricacies of the interactions among the characters and their inner life. The desert is also beautifully described, in all its barrenness and cruelty. I have rarely encountered such compelling language in other novels, and I absolutely enjoyed it.
'Quarantine', in short, is an interesting novel to read. It leaves the reader thinking about the moral issues raised for a long time, making him or her go back to re-read certain passages. I thoroughly recommend it. I'm sure that it would generate a wealth of fruitful ideas for debate on the meaning and nature of the religious experience.
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