The Fundamental Re-writing: Religious Texts and Contemporary Narrative. Gore Vidal's Live from Golgotha, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, José Saramago's O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo
In this essay Horácio Costa focused on three novels that have parody, the literary mechanism par excellence to enhance this uneven man-God dialogue, this individual-institutional interchange. With the private ritual of reading substituting many public rituals and the progressive transfer of authorit...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
1996-12-01
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| Series: | Nuevas Poligrafías, Revista de Teoría Literaria y Literatura Comparada |
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| Online Access: | http://revistas.filos.unam.mx/index.php/nuevaspoligrafias/article/view/1579 |