When dusk fell the spectators had already gone home, tired of standing there any longer. And besides, by that time the crucified were all dead.
Only Barabbas was left hanging there alone, still alive. When he felt death approaching, that which he had always been so afraid of, he said out into the darkness, as though he were speaking to it:
– To thee I deliver up my soul.
And then he gave up the ghost.
About the Author
Par Lagerkvist (1891-1974) is the author of more than thirty-five books and was renowned for his versatility as a poet, dramatist, essayist and novelist. In 1940 he was elected one of the eighteen 'Immortals' of the Swedish Academy, and in 1951 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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