Tanrı'nın ağzından evrenin hikayesi

Evrenin ve insanlığın akıl almaz serüvenini, yaratılışın ilk anından başlayarak, Yaratıcı'nın kendisinden dinlediğinizi hayal edin. İşte Franco Ferrucci bunu yapmış ve ortaya büyüleyici bir roman çıkmış...Ferrucci'nin şefkatli ve unutkan Tanrısı, kendini evrenin muazzam boşluğunda yapayalnız bulduğu anda başlayan bir yazgıyı, bütün iniş çıkışlarıyla birlikte, unutulmaz bir hikayeye dönüştürüyor. Bir bakıma herkesin, her canlının, bütün yeryüzünün hikayesi bu... Evrenin Hikayesi her şeyden önce bir yalnızlık destanı; çünkü yalnızlıkların en katlanılmaz olanını, Tanrı'nın mutlak ve aşılmaz yalnızlığını anlatıyor. Bu kahredici yalnızlıktan bir çıkış yolu arayan Tanrı sonunda yerküreye hayat verir, "evrenin doğurduğu umut çiçeği"ne...Yaratacısının tutkuyla sevdalandığı bu yeşil ve mavi gezegenin, aynı zamanda dizginlenemez bir yıkım enerjisiyle dolu olduğu çok geçmeden anlaşılacaktır: Söz dinlemez yerküre, yaratıcısının şaşkın bakışları altında kendi yoluna gider.İnsanoğlu doğduğu zaman, Tanrı'nın umutları bir kere daha canlanır: "Zulüm" ve "vahşeti" yeryüzünden silmesine yardım edecek belki de odur!.. Bundan sonrası ne yazık ki hüsran hikayesidir. En sevdiği varlığıyla Tanrı arasındaki ilişki, hüzün, ve hayal kırıklığıyla gölgelenmeye mahkumdur, hem de sonsuza kadar. İnsanlığın etkili çoğunluğu, Tanrı'nın "sevgi" ve "iyilik" dolu bir dünya özleminin gerektirdiği sorumlulukları üstlenmenin sıkıntısına girmeyecek, "zulüm" ve "vahşet" üretmeye devam edecektir. Üstelik Tanrı'nın başka bir yaratığına vermediği "aşk" yetisine rağmen... Böylece binlerce yıllık arayış sonuçsuz kalacak, "kötülüğün" ve acının" kaynağı bulunamayacak, "bilgi" ve "güzelliğin" hüküm sürdüğü bir dünya yaratılamayacaktır...Tanrı'yla kişisel ilişkiniz ne olursa olsun, iyiliğe ve geleceğe gizli gizli inanmak isteyenlerdenseniz, bu hazin hikayenin aklınızda ve yüreğinizde derin bir iz bırakacağına hiç kuşku yok. Bu hikaye, kendi sorumsuzluklarımızın hikayesi çünkü...

At the center of Franco Ferrucci's inspired novel is a tender, troubled God. In the beginning is God's solitude, and because God is lonely he creates the world. He falls in love with earth, plunges into the oceans, lives as plant and reptile and bird. His every thought and mood serve to populate the planet, with consequences that run away from him—sometimes delightfully, sometimes unfortunately.

When a new arrival emerges from the apes, God believes he has finally found the companion he needs to help him make sense of his unruly creation. Yet, as the centuries pass, God feels more and more out of place in the world he has created; by the close of his memoir, he is packing his bags.

Highly praised and widely reviewed, The Life of God is a playful, wondrous, and irresistible book, recounting thousands of years of religious and philosophical thought.

"A supreme but imperfect entity, the protagonist of this religiously enlightened and orthodoxically heretical novel is possessed by a raving love for his skewed, unbalanced world. . . . Blessed are the readers, for this tale of God's long insomnia will keep them happily awake. . . . Extraordinary." —Umberto Eco

"The Life of God is, in truth, the synthesis of a charming writer's . . . expression of his boundless hopes for, and poignant disappointments in, his own human kind." —Jack Miles, New York Times Book Review

"Rather endearing. . . . This exceedingly amusing novel . . . is a continuous provocation and delight; there isn't a dull page in it." —Kirkus Reviews

"A smart and charming knitting of secular and ecclesiastic views of the world. . . . Thecharacter of God is likable—sweet, utterly human. . . . The prose is delightful . . . the writing is consistently witty and intelligent and periodically hilarious." —Allison Stark Draper, Boston Review

"'God's only excuse is that he does not exist,' wrote Stendhal, but now Franco Ferrucci has provided the Supreme Being with another sort of alibi." —James Morrow, Washington Post Book World

At the center of Franco Ferrucci's inspired novel is a tender, troubled God. In the beginning is God's solitude, and because God is lonely he creates the world. He falls in love with earth, plunges into the oceans, lives as plant and reptile and bird. His every thought and mood serve to populate the planet, with consequences that run away from himsometimes delightfully, sometimes unfortunately. When a new arrival emerges from the apes, God believes he has finally found the companion he needs to help him make sense of his unruly creation. Yet, as the centuries pass, God feels more and more out of place in the world he has created; by the close of his memoir, he is packing his bags. Highly praised and widely reviewed, The Life of God is a playful, wondrous, and irresistible book, recounting thousands of years of religious and philosophical thought. "A supreme but imperfect entity, the protagonist of this religiously enlightened and orthodoxically heretical novel is possessed by a raving love for his skewed, unbalanced world. . . . Blessed are the readers, for this tale of God's long insomnia will keep them happily awake. . . . Extraordinary." Umberto Eco "The Life of God is, in truth, the synthesis of a charming writer's . . . expression of his boundless hopes for, and poignant disappointments in, his own human kind." Jack Miles, New York Times Book Review "Rather endearing. . . . This exceedingly amusing novel . . . is a continuous provocation and delight; there isn't a dull page in it." Kirkus Reviews "A smart and charming knitting of secular and ecclesiastic views of the world. . . . The character of God is likablesweet, utterly human. . . . The prose is delightful . . . the writing is consistently witty and intelligent and periodically hilarious." Allison Stark Draper, Boston Review "'God's only excuse is that he does not exist,' wrote Stendhal, but now Franco Ferrucci has provided the Supreme Being with another sort of alibi." James Morrow, Washington Post Book World A memoir in which God reveals that he created the world because he was lonely. When a new animal emerged from the apes, he thought he finally found the companion to help him make sense of his unruly creation, but as the centuries pass he feels more and more out of place. By an Italian writer