For the writer Sergio Ramírez, the Bible “is an inexhaustible source of human stories”, and one of them, that of Sarah and Abraham, is recreated in his recent novel to offer an iconoclastic vision of that singular woman faces a hostile world that does not understand the divine plan.
“The Bible is full of silences and offers plenty of room to read between the lines and tell otherwise the life of Sarah, who lives in a patriarchal society and must bend to the commands of the husband and the vagaries of divinity “, yesterday said the Nicaraguan writer.
Ramirez (Masatepe, 1942) not to travel to meet their various commitments and thus after receiving in Mexico’s Carlos Fuentes Award, now in Madrid to present his novel, Sara, who Alfaguara just published in Spain and from May come to Latin America.
For Sara, the writer struck him life “this pair of wandering, lonely migrants who is caught in the nets of divine destiny.”
“Sara never explains why there are so many people in the world were they elected to that capricious behavior of God, or that she sterile being, we promise that you will have a son, “said Ramirez, who impregnated with humor and irony his story.
The story of Sara and Abraham is not extensive in the Bible and the writer had to unravel the mysteries it contains, including that “errant husband suddenly decides to give his wife to another man and a profit for it” ·
Or that the arbitrary and cruel God of the Bible, Sarah calls “the Magician”, requires absolute fidelity or destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, said Sergio Ramirez, who has not written this book “to question anyone’s beliefs nor theology. “
As it did in The Fugitive, Ramirez explores in his new book womanhood, and her portrayal of Sara is very different from that offered by exegetes of the sacred texts,” in favor of canon “.
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