The Nazarene (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Sholem Asch
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: The first and twentieth centuries
- Setting: Palestine
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Religion, 1930’s, Jews or Jewish life, Biblical times, Jesus Christ, Reincarnation, Judaism, Jews and Gentiles, Middle East, Rabbis, First century
- Locales: Palestine
Characters Discussed
Pan Viadomsky, an anti-Semitic Catholic scholar living in the 1930’s. Old and irascible, he is both brilliant and fraudulent as a researcher of the Holy Land during the first century. He is the reincarnation of the Roman soldier, Cornelius, who apprehended and arrested Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. In his twentieth century incarnation, Viadomsky is still tortured by his memories of Jesus. He is fascinated with Jews as well as with anyone he perceives to be reincarnated from Jerusalem during the time of Jesus. At the same time, he is filled with...
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