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Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson

Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson ebook
Page: 59
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 0060975776, 9780060975777
Format: pdf

This, his only short story collection, is unfathomably out of print in the UK. Jesus Raises the Son of the Widow of Nain You may remember that last week, as we were looking at the story of Elijah competing with the prophets of Ba'al, I said that Elijah was an unpleasant person. The Vatican was built upon the grounds previously devoted to the worship of Mithra (600 B.C.). As he enters the gates, Jesus sees a procession leaving the town and carrying a dead man, the only son of a mother who is a widow. Denis Johnson changed my mind with this, now one of my all-time favorite books, and showed how to braid narrative and use the lyric register (poetic language). Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son: Stories (1992), for me, is as close to being high on dope that one can become from merely ingesting words and sentences and paragraphs through one's eyes and, if read aloud, ears. Jesus - a Reincarnation of Mithra. [June 9, 2013] The story of Jesus raising the only son of a widow in the town of Nain concludes Luke's introduction of Jesus as the Lord and Bringer of the coming Jubilee (see Luke 4:16-21). Mine is that I'm not a big fan of short stories. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson: Connected short stories about an unnamed heroin addict named “fuckhead” who drifts around the country, getting in and out of trouble. Jesus' Son, a short story collection from Denis Johnson, is tiny. The two characters in these stories could not be more different. And yet Jesus loved and helped them both. Though it's a quarter of the thickness of his sprawling Vietnam novel Tree of Smoke, it still packs just as much punch. Next Sunday's Gospel: Luke 7:11-17, is the story of Jesus raising the son of the widow of Nain. Jesus' Son (1992) has perhaps as much claim to be a novel as a collection of stories. While trapped on an airplane travelling from Detroit to San Diego last week, I read Denis Johnson's short story collection, Jesus' Son, cover to cover. The Orthodox Christian hierarchy is nearly identical to the Mithraic version. Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls.