Le Christ démultiplié dans The Gospels de Pietro Di Donato
This unpublished text is a theological fantasy based on the Gospels and John's Apocalypse. On their heavenly errands four independent Christs preach make love, not war ; stigmatize and punish man's sins with particular reference to the Vietnam War and the exercise of power in Washington from Nixon to Reagan. But all four Christs are double-faced, both God and Devil. The third and the fourth are both Male and Female. The relationship between the narrator and his Yellow and Black female Gods reveals the interplay of the life wish and the death wish, the ultimate triumph of the flesh over death in a fifth Gospel devoted to Stella Dunn, the last avatar of Lucifer/Venus Christ