![]() ![]() To rectify the situation, he swiftly and thoughtlessly places tongues in their mouths and then leaves them to fend for themselves in the Garden of Eden. ![]() It turns out that God is not pleased with his creations: Adam and Eve cannot speak, and God knows that he has to blame himself for this. But Saramago deviates from the usual depictions of Paradise right at the beginning, and he makes God out as a rather ridiculous being. ![]() But it soon turned out that this was not case, and Cain isn’t just an afterthought at the end of a lifetime, but an excellent, fresh novel – it’s a worthy closing piece of a great oeuvre.Įven though the protagonist of the novel is Cain, the story starts not with him but with Adam, Eve and their life in Paradise. Cain is the last novel by José Saramago and I was somewhat afraid that for this reason it might lack that wit, originality and playfulness which characterize his earlier books. ![]()
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