Adamastor Series: The Relic : A Novel (Series #7) (Paperback)

from uvula_fr_b4

The first-person tale of a hypocritical cad, Teodorico Raposo, who attempts to get in the good graces of his fanatically religious spinster aunt and fantasizes, through a long interpolated passage (essentially a novel-within-the-novel), the events immediately preceding Jesus Christ's crucifixion,...

from DieFledermaus

This books started out as an amusing portrait of a religious hypocrite, but then ran into some problems. There was an extended dream sequence where the narrator finds himself in Jerusalem during the last days of Jesus. It felt very flat, as the author spent a lot of time describing people and sce...

from Miguelnunonave

A funny little book by one of Portugal's greatest 19th century writers. One of his least-known, though it's a gem. Very good satire about a hypocritical nephew and his over-religious fanatic old aunt. Supposed to bring back a relic from a trip to Jerusalem, he mistakenly brings what it turns out ...