New Worlds ended publication in 1970 but was revived as a quarterly, also edited by Moorcock, until its final issue in 1976. by Michael Moorcock (Orion Millennium, 6.99, 124 pages, paperback first published 1969, this edition 1999.) Behold the Man opens with Karl Glogauer. There is a depiction of one incidence of sexual child abuse. In Michael Moorcock Award for his novella Behold the Man, in which a time traveler from the 20th century takes the place in history of an intellectually disabled Jesus. It was recommended to my by a Christian, however, and it doesn't seem anti-theist indeed it could be read as agnostic.
I am an atheist, and so I can't imagine how a Christian (or, indeed, someone with another faith) would approach this. The characters are all realistically drawn, and there are few likeable people, least of all Glogauer himself however, as the text progresses to the end, you begin to find him admirable. Moorcock's existentialist tale about Karl Glogauer, a man who travels from the year 1970 in a time machine to 28 A.D., where he hopes to meet the historical Jesus of Nazareth. It seems (to someone deeply ignorant) well researched and an original look at a reasonably familiar trope. This is stunning book, with intense emotions and a highly intelligent look at the story of Jesus.
Slowly Glogauer finds himself fulfilling a prophesy. Without wishing to give too much away, the book is stunningly irreverent to story of Christ. This intersperses the story of Glogauer arriving in the middle East in AD 29. Karl Glogauer is an anti-hero of the highest degree, his life - before an encounter with a time machine, anyway - is deeply miserable, and mostly what is detailed are a string of dysfunctional relationships. Then it happens that when you come into contact with other human beings who are learning like you to manage their freedom, you stumble on the concept of limit.This novel is a science fiction exploration of the crucifixion, through the eyes of a Jewish refugee, who is a bullied, fatherless, intensely neurotic, Jung-obsessed and self-loathing young man growing up in London in the post-war years. Something that makes you lose the brakes, makes you sweat and feel good. Taking inspiration from a science fiction novel from 1969 by Michael Moorcock, the story is about a modern version of the first human being, who appears on earth as an adult child, being enthusiastic for discovering the great inebriation that freedom can give, the liberation of the body using the metaphor of dance. New Worlds 166 (September 1966) was a particularly strong issue, including the novella-length version of Moorcock’s Behold the Man, Ballard’s ‘The Atrocity Exhibition’, and stories by.
It’s always a risk to meet one’s heroes, and a small Texas town seemed an inhospitable spot for a writer who, throughout all his multifarious work, has retained a specifically English sensibility. I had the pleasure of directing and animating the full CG music video for Behold The Man by C’mon Tigre. These days Moorcock lives in Texas, in the town of Bastrop, just outside Austin.
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