Jesus Christ Kinski

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A bold and brilliant short work by the author of the Goldsmiths Prize-winning Cuddy

'Myers' intense, double-edged fiction reminds us again of how exciting the novel can be' Observer
'Makes most contemporary fiction look bloodless by comparison' Daily Mail
'Like nothing else you'll read this year' Jan Carson
'Highly original, bold, inventive ... A stunning rendering' independent.co.uk
'A hair-raising performance' Kit Fan
'Brilliant, strange and electrifying' Daily Telegraph

November, 1971. Berlin, Germany. Opening night.

Klaus Kinski, Germany's most controversial actor, steps into the spotlight to a crowd of thousands.

After 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.

Exactly 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.

Jesus 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.

Praise 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

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9781526663429
Published: October 2025

Number of pages: 208
Width: 138 mm
Height: 218 mm
Depth: 26 mm

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC