{"product_id":"9781526663429","title":"Jesus Christ Kinski","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Myers, Benjamin\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526663429\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Mar 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Myers' intense, double-edged fiction reminds us again of how exciting the novel can be' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Makes most contemporary fiction look bloodless by comparison' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Like nothing else you'll read this year' \u003c\/b\u003eJan Carson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Highly original, bold, inventive - A stunning rendering'\u003c\/b\u003e independent.co.uk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A hair-raising performance' \u003c\/b\u003eKit Fan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brilliant, strange and electrifying\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNovember, 1971. Berlin, Germany. Opening night. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\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\u003e'One of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers' \u003ci\u003ei news \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Radical and gorgeous' Max Porter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A writer of extraordinary and incandescent talent' Alex Preston\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46643233554590,"sku":"UBD-9781526663429","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526663429.jpg?v=1774484863","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526663429","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}