{"product_id":"jesus-christ-kinski-9781526663429","title":"Jesus Christ Kinski","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold and brilliant short work by the author of the Goldsmiths Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eCuddy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNovember, 1971. Berlin, Germany. Opening night.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKlaus Kinski, Germany's most controversial actor, steps into the spotlight to a crowd of thousands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter years of making movies abroad, he has returned to the stage for a much-publicized one-man performance about Jesus Christ. As the crowd turn on him and violence is threatened, it is also very nearly his last. After this week, he will never perform on stage again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExactly fifty years later, a hypochondriac writer, housebound by winter snowstorms, becomes  fixated with video footage of Kinski at his most manic.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this forensic analysis, he strays into the darker corners of modern culture, and finally begins to understand the compulsive urge that drives artists to the edge of sanity in their pursuit of perfection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJesus Christ Kinski\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about a film about a performance about Jesus. It is a daring act of literary ventriloquism, a meditation on censorship, creativity, loneliness  and just how far our tolerance is tested by bad people who make great art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Benjamin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers' \u003ci\u003ei news \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRadical and gorgeous' Max Porter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA writer of extraordinary and incandescent talent' Alex Preston\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090988560727,"sku":"9781526663429","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526663429.jpg?v=1762273943","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jesus-christ-kinski-9781526663429","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}