Fantasia verbale e irriverente parodia in L’Evangile de Jimmy (2004) di Didier van Cauwelaert

Verbal fantasy and irreverent parody in L'Evangile de Jimmy (2004) by Didier van Cauwelaert L'Evangile de Jimmy, by Didier van Cauwelaert (Paris, Albin Michel, 2004), proposes a rewriting of the events from the gospel, but told from a postmodern perspective and featuring typically parodical tones. The Christian isotope, subjected to a process of distortion, forms the leitmotif around which the story unfolds. The author, taking advantage of the mechanisms of expansion and transposition, arrives at the construction of a parodic, apocryphal and desecrating revision, if not actually blasphemous, of some salient events in the life of Christ also entrusted to the nomination. The provocative approach and the communicative intention wrought with parody are especially entrusted to the denominations of the protagonist.