false<![CDATA[Behold the Man]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170538433m/60146.jpg6014613 Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job & a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity & his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre obsession with the idea of the messiah. After the collapse of his latest affair & his introduction to a reclusive physics professor, Karl is given the opportunity to confront his obsession & take a journey that no one has taken before, & from which he knows he cannot return. Upon arriving in Palestine, AD 29, Glogauer finds that Jesus Christ is not the man that history & faith would like to believe, but that there is an opportunity for someone to change the course of history by making the ultimate sacrifice.
First published in 1969, Behold the Man broke thru scifi's genre boundaries to create a poignant reflection on faith, disillusion & self-sacrifice. This is the classic novel that established the career of perhaps contemporary science fiction's most cerebral & innovative author.
A slim novel of theology & time travel, Behold the Man was expanded from the 1966 novella version which won a Nebula Award. Non-hero Karl Glogauer has a traumatic history of bullying & abuse as a Jewish refugee child in fifties Britain. When grown, he rides a time machine to the Roman-ruled Judaea of AD 28 & finds himself hailed as a magus by John the Baptist & the Essene sect ...<blockquote>How should he use the power? Did he really have a mission? Could he alter history & be responsible for aiding the Jews to throw out the Romans?</blockquote><p>In his own time Glogauer is a failed lover, a questing but forever unsatisfied mystic, a repeated faker of suicide attempts. In first-century Judaea these shortcomings are echoed in terrible ironies & his destiny emerges as inevitable from the moment he visits a certain carpenter's workshop to find the misshapen idiot boy called Jesus.<p><blockquote>Karl Glogauer had discovered the reality he had been seeking. That was not to say he did not still have doubts.</blockquote><p>Perhaps it might have been possible to alter history, but the grim old drama plays out as it was foreordained--or at least, close enough for historians to hammer into the prophesied shape. "The chroniclers would rearrange it". Whether history has been remade as tragedy or farce is for readers to decide. This is Moorcock's sharpest, most successful novel of pure SF.--David Langford32538601968Behold the Mantotal:290|5:92|4:101|3:75|2:16|1:6|29011274073651falsetrueSat Jan 26 16:25:11 -0800 2008Sun Jan 27 21:58:47 -0800 2008 Details the adventures of a sad sack - very well drawn, with a Camusian depth of loneliness and misdirection - who, upon learning that his latest girlfriend is having an affair with another woman ("It's not a betrayal, Karl - it's a bloody holiday."...more...]]>
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