[tinamasak]

I don't know much about Lagerkvist. My judgment was based on the book itself, and I don't take back my "nice story for children" comment, even if I do wonder if it wasn't an unnecessarily nasty swipe. Like I said, I would have preferred to start with another of the author's books (ideally the autobiographical A Guest of Reality) but took what I could get. If Lagerkvist was indeed an atheist, it puts the book in a different light, but doesn't actually make it any better for me. I have a friend who thinks that Barabbas is the bee's knees and would probably be horrified if I told him how little I thought of it. Yes, yes, a matter of taste...