Word: ahasuerus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Death of Ahasuerus, by Par Lagerkvist. The Wandering Jew, rendered as a study in faith and doubt, by a Nobel Prizewinning novelist who once described himself as "a believer without belief." The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman. The fateful first month of World War I as a drama in which every actor had rehearsed his part for years and yet turned into a shambles...
...Death of Ahasuerus, by Pär Lagerkvist. The Wandering Jew as a symbol of salvation by unfaith-by a Nobel prize-winning novelist who once described himself as "a believer without a belief...
...Death of Ahasuerus, by Par Lagerkvist. The Wandering Jew as a symbol of salvation by unfaith-by a Nobel Prize-winning novelist who once described himself as "a believer without a belief...
...Beyond all the sacred clutter, the holy thing itself must exist," he cries. "That I believe, of that I am certain." But he still defies the being he calls god with a contemptuous small g. God, says Ahasuerus, separates man from the divine, from the sacred spring. "To god I do not kneel-no, and I never will. But I would gladly lie down at the spring to drink from it-to quench my thirst, my burning thirst for what I cannot conceive of, but which I know exists. And perhaps that is what I'm doing...
...Ahasuerus won his peace? By kneeling, Lagerkvist seems to be saying, not to worship but to drink...