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Original Title:	Il mondo creato
ISBN:	0226244962 (ISBN13: 9780226244969)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Premio Grinzane Cavour for Narrativa Italiana (1987)

The Life of God (as Told by Himself)

Franco Ferrucci

Paperback | Pages: 290 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 258 Users | 26 Reviews

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At the center of Franco Ferrucci's inspired novel is a tender, troubled God. In the beginning is God's solitude, and because God is lonely he creates the world. He falls in love with earth, plunges into the oceans, lives as plant and reptile and bird. His every thought and mood serve to populate the planet, with consequences that run away from him—sometimes delightfully, sometimes unfortunately.

When a new arrival emerges from the apes, God believes he has finally found the companion he needs to help him make sense of his unruly creation. Yet, as the centuries pass, God feels more and more out of place in the world he has created; by the close of his memoir, he is packing his bags.

Highly praised and widely reviewed, The Life of God is a playful, wondrous, and irresistible book, recounting thousands of years of religious and philosophical thought.

"A supreme but imperfect entity, the protagonist of this religiously enlightened and orthodoxically heretical novel is possessed by a raving love for his skewed, unbalanced world. . . . Blessed are the readers, for this tale of God's long insomnia will keep them happily awake. . . . Extraordinary." —Umberto Eco

"The Life of God is, in truth, the synthesis of a charming writer's . . . expression of his boundless hopes for, and poignant disappointments in, his own human kind." —Jack Miles, New York Times Book Review

"Rather endearing. . . . This exceedingly amusing novel . . . is a continuous provocation and delight; there isn't a dull page in it." —Kirkus Reviews

"A smart and charming knitting of secular and ecclesiastic views of the world. . . . The character of God is likable—sweet, utterly human. . . . The prose is delightful . . . the writing is consistently witty and intelligent and periodically hilarious." —Allison Stark Draper, Boston Review

"'God's only excuse is that he does not exist,' wrote Stendhal, but now Franco Ferrucci has provided the Supreme Being with another sort of alibi." —James Morrow, Washington Post Book World

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Title	:	The Life of God (as Told by Himself)
Author	:	Franco Ferrucci
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 290 pages
Published	:	November 8th 1997 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1986)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Italian Literature. Philosophy

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Ratings: 3.81 From 258 Users | 26 Reviews

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okuyanı oldukça eğlendiren, akıcı, hareketli ve nüktedan bir anlatımı olsa da çok eksik bir kitap. soru işaretleri bırakan, bir olayın/olgunun/oluşumun öyküsü içerisinde ciddi boşluklar bulunduran, hristiyanlıktan başka din tanımayan, hem evrimci hem katolik(ne yapacağını, kime yaranacağını bilememiş), eksik eksik eksik çok eksik bir evren hikayesi. tanrının iradesini öylesine hiçe sayıyor ki, anlatıcı tanrımız doğa olayları karşısında bile şaşkınlığa düşüyor. tanrı'nın değil de bir meleğin

my favorite book ever!

some sort of vague spoilers ahead..I don't know...it's kinda of a mixed bag with this book. I thought the author's take on God was really interesting, his personality, the manner in which he does or does not interact with the earth's timeline. God is presented here initially with the immense power to create and influence, but then seems to vanish into the background into his own life, as his creations begin to operate on their own terms (man foremost of all). I like the representation of God as

This is an interesting book. On the one hand a bit obvious. Just go through the conventional checklist of philosophers and writers who are deemed worthy of a mention. But on the other hand a really original and insightful look into the question ' well,what does god think about it all, and about us?'What's it all like from his point of view? He doesn't seem to get it either, so what hope have we got?I found his interactions with and conversations with the devil particularly intriguing. Clever,

In Italian the book is called Il Mondo Creato. The English edition departs somewhat from the Italain original, thanks to a close collaboration between author Franco Ferrucci and translator Raymond Rosenthal. Ferrucci writes not only novels but also criticism, and this light-hearted yet fearless narration of the relation between the Creator and "his" world reads like a critical history of culture. "God," as Ferrucci has portrayed the deity, moves back and forth between the wider cosmos and earthy

A cute, albeit almost too cute, exercise regarding the autobiography of God. It tries to be a little too smart, to be honest, and didn't really work for me in terms of what it was trying to accomplish. A good idea for a philosophical exercise, but it left a lot to be desired for me, especially as a short piece.

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