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I have read 5 or 6 books by Lagerkvist. I read "Barrabas" first and then got into some other books of his after I intentionally started reading the Nobel Prize novelists. For me, I have found Lagerkvist to be unusually succinct. His quintology that "Holy Land" completes could easily have been one book in five parts. "Holy Land" for example, is 80 pages long and those pages seem almost to be double-spaced. It doesn't take long to read his books and, frankly, I haven't exactly come away with any profound thoughts afterwards. I noticed a number of times in "Holy Land" that Lagerkvist tosses ideas out there and then goes on to other things. A number of his ideas gave me pause to consider them but I couldn't detect a cohesive theme. Two marooned sailers have an opportunity to see things through the eyes of a people who know nothing of the faith and culture that they came from. Occassional revelations along this line are the essence of the book. There was plenty of room to develop things further. Perhaps Lagerkvist merely intended to give us things to work out on our own. The message I was left with was that we worship what we do not understand and what we value in the abstract. Ultimately, if we persevere with our faith, we will discover the true value of what it is that we followed on faith alone. Not bad, but there was definitely room for improving the delivery of the message. At least there is in my opinion.


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The Holy Land Pär Lagerkvist Emil Antonucci Naomi Walford Books Reviews

Yes, to have the books in this quatralogy or whatever you call it out of print is definitely a shame -- it would be just made for a fat paperback with all the books included. You would also want to include the wonderful maze-like drawings that were in the hard-cover versions I read. Come on, publishers, it's a tragedy not to have this stuff available! Lagerkvist and Kazantzakis (sp?) seem to me to be very significant must-read authors in similar veins when it comes to coping with God, or the myth of God.
This attractive book, of which I have the second, revised edition copyrighted 1923 (of 240 textual pages, plus many unpaginated colour plates of illustrations by John Fulleylove), having restored my copy lovingly to good condition by hand, states in the "Publisher`s Note" therein that "the author has revised the work and slightly abridged it", which would make the somewhat fuller first edition of 1902 even more worthwhile to own. Kelman lovingly describes the land, its history, and how it was at the dawn of the 20th century. The work makes for an unique kind of reverentially Christian treatment of the land so important to the ethical monotheism of Christianity and Islam and, of course, of the more unsavoury religion of rabbinical Judaism. As documentation of the Holy Land, one might wonder why it is that paintings serve to illustrate this account of pre-Zionist Entity Palestine; although, of course, there is much attention to the Biblical antiquities in these watercolour paintings and in the text, one also can obtain a good impression of how historic Palestine looked, longtime settled it had been, too, in pre-Zionist-afflicted times, before the Zionist squatters arrived en masse to usurp a vast part of the indigenous population. One does have to admit that resort to photography of the book`s era would have resulted in solely black-and-white illustrations, rather than the more evocative colour illustrations that painting and its printed reproduction permit.

For the modern reader, this book and tour guides like it retain great value. They eloquently refute any claims by Zionist Jews or by their supporters, often so-called "Zionist Christians", that Palestine was an empty land awaiting a just take-over by Jews who claimed that they needed a national homeland. (Fortunately, several more honest Jewish historians themselves, even in "Israel" itself, have begun to dismantle that Zionist myth.) Palestine already had been highly settled by its Arabs and other peoples and was well developed and prosperous. Its then population consisted mostly of agrarian Arabs, many of them Christian (in greater relative numbers than the more prevailingly Muslim Palestinian Arabs of today) and some minority Armenian, Greek, Sephardic Jewish, and other minorities. To make room for the Zionists who came later, the Zionist zealots, most of them Ashkenazic Jews, at that, rather than Middle Eastern indigenous Sephardim, later razed hundreds of the towns and villages of historic Palestine and variously drove away or outright slaughtered a large proportion of its original, mostly unarmed peoples. This book shows just how much was lost to the soulless concrete and asphalt of the Zionist squatters that replaced the lovely original Palestinian indigenous population centres, larger and smaller, cultivated fields and orchards within the ever-shifting borders of what today constitute alike present-day "Israel" as well as the "Occupied Territories" of the West Bank and Gaza.

So, if the reader and lover of art and of travel would like to know Palestine as it was meant to be, and as it once existed in peaceful and venerably picturesque tranquillity, a book such as Kelman`s and Fulleylove`s "The Holy Land" makes a good starting point. Enjoy!
It is a shame that the last three books of the Tobias tetralogy (or quintology, if you include Barabbas) are not in print. What begins in The Sibyl is richly layered and continues in The Death of Ahasuerus, Pilgrim at Sea, and ends with this fine parable. Each book is sparsely written and, with each succeeding one, the story becomes more "fairy tale" like.
I love Lagerkvist's theology, his use of paradox, and his constant examination of faith and one's relationship to "god." Each of these stories mirrors an aspect of life. The setting for The Holy Land brings the series back to the setting of The Sibyl in Delphi which is now a ruined temple. This final book is more "scenic" than the others; short vignettes that gradually come together and conclude a wonderful parable that stretches from the crucifixion of Christ through the middle ages to today.
Lagerkvist won the 1951 Nobel for many good reasons!
I have read 5 or 6 books by Lagerkvist. I read "Barrabas" first and then got into some other books of his after I intentionally started reading the Nobel Prize novelists. For me, I have found Lagerkvist to be unusually succinct. His quintology that "Holy Land" completes could easily have been one book in five parts. "Holy Land" for example, is 80 pages long and those pages seem almost to be double-spaced. It doesn't take long to read his books and, frankly, I haven't exactly come away with any profound thoughts afterwards. I noticed a number of times in "Holy Land" that Lagerkvist tosses ideas out there and then goes on to other things. A number of his ideas gave me pause to consider them but I couldn't detect a cohesive theme. Two marooned sailers have an opportunity to see things through the eyes of a people who know nothing of the faith and culture that they came from. Occassional revelations along this line are the essence of the book. There was plenty of room to develop things further. Perhaps Lagerkvist merely intended to give us things to work out on our own. The message I was left with was that we worship what we do not understand and what we value in the abstract. Ultimately, if we persevere with our faith, we will discover the true value of what it is that we followed on faith alone. Not bad, but there was definitely room for improving the delivery of the message. At least there is in my opinion.