The Tobias Trilogy (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Pär Lagerkvist
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: The Middle Ages
- Setting: The Mediterranean and Aegean seas and coastlands
- Genres: Long fiction, Expressionist literature
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Mythology or myths, Religion, Spiritual life or spirituality, Christianity, Death or dying, Greek or Roman times, Pilgrims or pilgrimages, Middle Ages, Oracles
- Locales: Mediterranean, Aegean Sea
Characters Discussed
The Death of Ahasuerus, 1960
Ahasuerus (ah-hah-sew-AY- ruhs), the legendary Wandering Jew, identified in the narrative only as “the stranger.” He meets Tobias and Diana in an inn for pilgrims to the Holy Land and accompanies them until Diana is killed and Tobias subsequently boards a ship falsely represented as bound for the Holy Land. Ahasuerus has been cursed with eternal meaningless life for having refused to let Jesus, bearing his cross to Golgotha, rest against his house. To Ahasuerus, the Holy Land is death, the object of his...
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