Pontius pilate / Roger Caillois ; translated by Charles Lam Markmann ; introduction by Ivan Strenski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caillois, Roger, 1913-1978.

Contributor:

Markmann, Charles Lam.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)

Studies in religion and culture

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Pilate, Pontius, active 1st century--Fiction.

Pilate, Pontius.

Pilate, Pontius, active 1st century.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxi, 111 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First University of Virginia Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.

Summary:

Written by one of France's great men of letters of the twentieth century, this book is a highly provocative and psychologically gripping novel that reconstructs Pontius Pilate's state of mind in deciding to convict Jesus.

Contents:

1 The Priests 1

2 Menenius 21

3 Judas 35

4 The Interrogation 47

5 Mardouk 59

6 Pilate 79

7 Night Without Sleep 93.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page xxxi).

"Originally published in French as Ponce Pilate, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1961"--T.p. verso.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0813925517

OCLC:

61821820