Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780679725442ISBN:067972544X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-lib with cover protector. Text in English, Swedish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Vintage International (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. 1955 Vintage Books paperback. NOT EX LIB! Pages are clean & bright with light reading wear, creased spine, covers very scuffed with worn edges. 180 p. Glued binding. V-134. read more
Edition: Later printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good reading copy, some soil and edgewear. poi inside wrap. 180pp, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1951. Translated to English by Alan Blair. Discoloration on back wrap. P13. read more
Description: Good. 067972544X Good Condition **Softcover**--Exactly as pictured--EXACT ISBN MATCH--cover has some shelf wear, corner curl, some minor Spine Creasing, No personalizations, No marks in the text at all. Still Tight and well bound. Ships Quickly-IN STOCK-Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. -3rd Vintage Printing--No Jacket. Good 16mo-over 5 3/4"-6 3/4" Tall 180 pgs. Interior-Near flawless. The boards are well preserved w/ only light signs of use. -Publish Place: New York-Size: read more
"Good book, very thoughtful. Barabbas was condemned to death, when Jesus was crucified in his place. Imagine living your life after something like that! Barabbas, in this work, lived a rough life after that, and eventually died on a cross. He spent his entire life trying to believe, trying to find meaning. I intend to read this again. Read it on a rainy day."
Le roman de Lagerkvist restitue la conscience inquiète et la vie mouvementée de ce personnage après qu'il a vu exécuter celui que les premiers chrétiens annoncent comme leur Sauveur.
Tout d'abord Barabbas reste sceptique : il lui semble difficile de croire qu'un être fasse preuve d'un tel esprit de sacrifice et encore moins qu'il puisse ressusciter.
Mais Barabbas ne sera plus le même après avoir assisté à ce moment historique, la crucifixion de Jésus sur le mont Golgotha.
Le lecteur sent le doute et les préceptes de la foi pénétrer peu à peu son esprit, au fil des rencontres et des épreuves qu'il traverse.
Traduit du suédois. Du même auteur (1891-1974), Prix Nobel de littérature 1951 : La Nain ; Le Bourreau ; La Sibylle. Préface de Diane de Margerie."
"A beautiful parable about a man's constant attempt to find faith in spite of being caught in an ocean of doubts. Lagervkist, much like Platanov, uses defamiliarization to create a world that is not quite mystical, but not quite mundane either. The whole story has this air of solemn profundity about it which occure so rarely in fictions that deal with the problems of faith and doubt. This was my first foray into Scandinavian fiction, and I'm glad I choose this work."
"Par Lagerkvist won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1951. This book was written in Sweden in 1950 and released in the US in 1951. This was on my freshman English reading list long, long ago when I started college. I re-read it now for my DLS RA SIG group--we're doing Christian/Inspirational/Religious fiction for the coming year. Barabbas is the criminal who was to be crucified but was set free and Jesus was crucified in his place. So Barabbas spends the rest of his life trying to figure out why he was chosen to live, and was Jesus really the son of God? Short book: 144 pages. Only three stars from me, 'cuz it just wasn't my cup of tea though it is considered by many to be a "masterwork" and is Lagerkvist's most famous work."
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