La vraie/fausse Passion d’Amadeo Padilla dans « The Five Wounds » de Kirstin Valdez Quade

Published in 2009 in the New York Times, Kirstin Valdez Quade’s short story reads like an ironic rewriting of Christ’s Stations of the Cross. The main character, Amadeo, is to impersonate Christ in a yearly ritual replicating the Passion. The ambiguity of the final scene allows the reader to question the meaning of sacrifice: does it really bring about redemption or is it just a simulacrum?