📗 Libro en inglés JESUS CHRIST KINSKI

A bold and brilliant short work by the author of the Goldsmiths Prize winning Cuddy November 1971 Berlin Germany Opening night Klaus Kinski Germany s most controversial actor steps into the spotlight to a crowd of thousands After years of making movies abroad he has returned to the stage for a much publicized one man performance about Jesus Christ As the crowd turn on him and violence is threatened it is also very nearly his last After this week he will never perform on stage again Exactly fifty years later a hypochondriac writer housebound by winter snowstorms becomes fixated with video footage of Kinski at his most manic In this forensic analysis he strays into the darker corners of modern culture and finally begins to understand the compulsive urge that drives artists to the edge of sanity in their pursuit of perfection Jesus Christ Kinski is a novel about a film about a performance about Jesus It is a daring act of literary ventriloquism a meditation on censorship creativity loneliness and just how far our tolerance is tested by bad people who make great art Praise for Benjamin Myers One of our finest and most deftly imaginative writers i news Radical and gorgeous Max Porter A writer of extraordinary and incandescent talent Alex