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Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock5/24/2023 ![]() Not accidentally the time machine is made more or less like a womb because this isn’t a hard science fiction novel so we don’t know how time travel works. Thus we see Karl’s tough family situation, the many bad things that happen to him in the years of his growth and the difficulty in the relationships with his girlfriends.įor Karl it’s also a problem to do something with his life so the chance to participate in a time travel experiment is a kind of rebirth. “Behold the Man” begins with the arrival of Karl Glogauer in Palestine but during the novel the tale of his adventures in the past alternates with the story of his previous life. ![]() “Behold the Man” is a novel with a very strong theme and if you’re a devout Christian it’s probably better if you don’t read it because you’ll feel offended. Many people however started mistaking Karl for Jesus so he can only organize his preaching and his own death. ![]() Karl goes in search for Jesus but when he finds him he realizes that he’s not the person he expected. Thus he finds John the Baptist, who is their leader, but nobody seems to know Jesus. His machine falls apart in a quite violent arrival and Karl is rescued by a group of Essenes. ![]() Karl Glogauer travels in a time machine to arrive in Palestine in 28 AD searching for Jesus. In 1966 it had already been published in a shorter version which won the Nebula Award as the best novella of the year. The novel “Behold the Man” by Michael Moorcock was published for the first time in 1969. ![]() Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock (Italian edition) ![]()
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