intelligent. scholar. blasphemous. This book is exceptional, really, both from a substantive point of view of form. Here again, we find tasty writing Saramago, as can be appreciated in the 'History of the Siege of Lisbon', but this time with a serious subject, burning. The humor is present, behind which is a message that goes to the founding myth of our civilization. And if we had simply misunderstood the real meaning of 'Jesus, King of the Jews?