It is import ant to be able to step along the hero?s journey and understand the ever repeated rhythms within it. Pullman has written an excellent book and one I recommend. So, as he steps though the doors of his life ? the fore told stages of his journey ? we step with him and arrive on the other side together. His is the hero?s story told again and again through the ages, and its lessons are to be read and dwelt upon over many tellings. As with other tales of half remembered, but not forgotten, ancient wis?dom, the story of Jesus has meaning beyond the telling. All stories of the Gods are the sub?ject of myth and they all have within them the patterns that stretch directly into the mind and subconscious. And in doing so makes us face what the story of Jesus really means. Rather it is a telling of a myth a fable. The first line of Philip Pullman?s novel reads: "This is the story of Jesus and his brother Christ, of how they were born, how they lived and how one of them died." Despite the use of the definite ?the? in the first line of Philip Pullman?s new novel, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, it is not actually claiming to be the real back-story of the influential spiritual leader. In short, I recommend it unreservedly.Ī interesting way to highlight myth. The narrator goes from a straightforward reading to empassioned as the tale goes on, and my initial wariness of the author reading his own work was quickly overcome. I hope it challenges the perceptions of others as it did mine, and even if it does not its merits in literary style and emotionally involving characters will hoperfully prove engaging. It retells familiar tales and it's interesting to see how he works them in to his narrative of brotherly lives lived in tandem and historical 'correction.' It actually takes a surprisingly balanced view on the legacy of Jesus and the role of faith. As far as I'm aware Philip Pullman isn't asserting that he did, this book is pure fiction and should be approached as such. I have no particular view on the historical realism of Jesus, although I do not believe he had such a brother as is described here.
Philip Pullman tells his story with a simplicity of writing style that is at first a little surprising, although the later eloquence in some of the dialogue (one late passage in particular) did move me nearly to tears.
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