/lit/ - Literature

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(If this seems too long for an OP in /lit/, it was first a post on r/Literature which didn't get any attention because it's dead and r/Books is just filled with 'Game of Thrones' and 'Dune'.)

I'm looking for literature with Biblical characters in modern (the more secular the better) settings. I'm interested in both theology and realism, and it's fun to see these cross-over.

Examples could be Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, or Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. I especially liked the former, set as it is in overwhelmingly-secular modern Russia.

I'm certain I've read other examples of this, but those are the only two I can remember (they're the only two on my dedicated Goodreads shelf). They're likely to be Russian literature (given the country's history, current culture, and my having read a lot of it).

It's unbelievably difficult to search for any kind of books working on this kind of theme. Can you think of anything with similar themes?

If you haven't read either of the two books above, The Satanic Verses deals with two celebrities who effect the personality of the Devil and of the archangel Gibreel; in The Master and Margarita, Satan and a small group of followers appear in '30s atheistic Moscow, wreaking havok all whilst the populace deny their existence.

(It occurs to me that both books have split settings, which is interesting but not really my point.)

>>3524947
Please kill yourself right now.

>>3178484
what are you suggesting anon?

Chronic City, j. Lethem
The Corrections j. Franzen