The impulse to say something daringly original about the Christ figure has erupted in novels as diverse as D. H. Lawrence’s The Man Who Died (1930), Robert Graves’s King Jesus (1946), José Saramago’s The Gospel according to Jesus Christ (1994), Norman Mailer’s The Gospel according to the Son (1997), Jim Crace’s Quarantine (1999), and Nino Ricci’s Testament: A Novel (2003).
