V819 Holy Land

by Pär Lagerkvist

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394708199
• ISBN13: 9780394708195
• Release Date: March 1982
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Length: 85 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Out of print? Incredible

Yes, to have the books in this quatralogy or whatever you call it out of print is definitely a shame -- it would be just made for a fat paperback with all the books included. You would also want to include the wonderful maze-like drawings that were in the hard-cover versions I read. Come on, publishers, it's a tragedy not to have this stuff available! Lagerkvist and Kazantzakis (sp?) seem to me to be very significant must-read authors in similar veins when it comes to coping with God, or the myth of God.

Symbolic Climax

It is a shame that the last three books of the Tobias tetralogy (or quintology, if you include Barabbas) are not in print. What begins in The Sibyl is richly layered and continues in The Death of Ahasuerus, Pilgrim at Sea, and ends with this fine parable. Each book is sparsely written and, with each succeeding one, the story becomes more "fairy tale" like.I love Lagerkvist's theology, his use of paradox, and his constant examination of faith and one's relationship to "god." Each of these stories mirrors an aspect of life. The setting for The Holy Land brings the series back to the setting of The Sibyl in Delphi which is now a ruined temple. This final book is more "scenic" than the others; short vignettes that gradually come together and conclude a wonderful parable that stretches from the crucifixion of Christ through the middle ages to today.Lagerkvist won the 1951 Nobel for many good reasons!