Barabbas

Par Lagerkvist's Barabbas speaks to the modern world from the Jerusalem of the Nazarene. Barabbas's central problem, "I want to believe," is only ambiguously resolved, but around him he sees a pure, devotional, ecstatic Christianity that the centuries would partly betray. Austere and dignified, Barabbas is written in the style of the Age of Faith but for the Age of Doubt.