{"product_id":"9781526663429","title":"Jesus Christ Kinski - SIGNED EXCLUSIVE INDIE BOOKSHOP EDITION","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSIGNED EXCLUSIVE INDIE BOOKSHOP EDITION with sprayed edges!\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Benjamin Myers\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFilms, cinema | Biography: general | Biography: arts \u0026amp; entertainment | Memoirs\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 23\u003csup\u003erd\u003c\/sup\u003e October 2025 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Circus) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 224 pages \u003cbr\u003e216mm x 135mm | 500g\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA bold and brilliant short work by the author of the Goldsmiths Prize-winning Cuddy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNovember, 1971. Berlin, Germany. Opening night. Klaus Kinski, Germany’s most controversial actor, steps into the spotlight to a crowd of thousands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter years of making movies abroad, he has returned to the stage for a much-publicized one-man performance about Jesus Christ. As the crowd turn on him and violence is threatened, it is also very nearly his last. After this week, he will never perform on stage again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExactly fifty years later, a hypochondriac writer, housebound by winter snowstorms, becomes fixated with video footage of Kinski at his most manic. In this forensic analysis, he strays into the darker corners of modern culture, and finally begins to understand the compulsive urge that drives artists to the edge of sanity in their pursuit of perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJesus Christ Kinski is a novel about a film about a performance about Jesus. It is a daring act of literary ventriloquism, a meditation on censorship, creativity, loneliness – and just how far our tolerance is tested by bad people who make great art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Benjamin Myers‘One of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers’ i news ‘Radical and gorgeous’ Max Porter‘A writer of extraordinary and incandescent talent’ Alex Preston\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55319257186679,"sku":"9781526663429","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/Jesus_Christ_Kinski_packshots_1_x_2.jpg?v=1750078901","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9781526663429","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}