The Da Vinci Code
(Dan Brown)
Placing the Da Vinci code into a literary genre is difficult, even though it consists of a detective story in which the protagonists are being pursued by the French police for a crime occurring in the opening stages of the book. Its take on the historical roots of Christianity have made it a worldwide bestseller, though it openly challenges and attacks the supposed divinity of Jesus Christ, lowering him to an ordinary human being capable of falling in love and even having children; in light of this, the novel has become a shrine for all those people that have been steadily distancing themselves from the Christian faith. Although it draws on crucial historical fact, it cannot prove that secret societies do exist; or that the paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci have hidden anti-Christian and goddess worship connotations; or that Opus Dei practices torture on its members as a means of reminding them of the suffering of Jesus on the cross, and should only be treated as a basic fiction novel for entertainment purposes. However, the authors? ability to provoke the readers? curiosity to discover truths and mysterious secrets dating back from the time of Jesus Christ, by bringing in aspects largely in the public eye, like a square or a church, and making use of the myths and legends that have come from Christian lore is worthy of merit. Always on the run from the police, the protagonists are the only ones capable of solving the mystery surrounding the death of the leader of a secret society that guards humanities biggest treasure: the Holy Grail. Step by step they get closer to the truth, one unlike anything they could have imagined?stumbling on the Tomb of Mary Magdalene and the scrolls that can prove the existence of a lineage from Jesus.
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