The profane Bible of José Saramago

Abstract

In this article, we discuss the relationship between God and Man, between Religion and Rationality, between Christianity and Humanism, created by Jose Saramago in Caim and O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo through the eyes of historiographic metafiction, not distanced from the religious discourse and literary, but by understanding that such discourses merge to one another. Such discussions about the war between the demiurge, Man and God, use theorists such as Bloom (1992), Clastres (1990), Ferraz (1998, 2003), Hutcheon (1991), Le Goff (2010), Nogueira (2002), Santiago (2002), Tricca (1989, 1992, 1995, 2001), among others, to promote a dialogue from the inversion proposed by Saramago between the beginning and end, setting the Omega as an essential condition for the existence Alpha, and recommend the coronation of man not as the primacy of divine creation, but the creator of the divinity of what, later, would become the largest religion on the planet. When creating Saramago literary theology, the author subverts the biblical division first to write O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo, his New Testament for only then publish Caim, the Old Testament, or Final Testament, which proposes, as an inheritance, destroy God in origin, ie, from the extermination of its creator, the Man.