Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers - Exclusive Signed Independent Bookshop Edition

Published 23 October 2025 - available to pre-order now

The winner of the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize, Benjamin Myers has become quickly established as one of the most exciting literary writers at work today. 

Jesus Christ Kinski is a novel about a film about a performance about Jesus. It is a daring act of literary ventriloquism, a meditation on censorship, creativity, loneliness – and just how far our tolerance is tested by bad people who make great art.

• November, 1971. Berlin, Germany. Opening night.
• Klaus Kinski, Germany’s most controversial actor, steps into the
spotlight to a crowd of thousands.
• After years of making movies abroad, he has returned to the stage
for a much-publicized one-man performance about Jesus Christ. As
the crowd turn on him and violence is threatened, it is also very
nearly his last. After this week, he will never perform on stage again.
• Exactly fifty years later, a hypochondriac writer, housebound by
winter snowstorms, becomes fixated with video footage of Kinski at
his most manic.
• In this forensic analysis, he strays into the darker corners of modern
culture, and finally begins to understand the compulsive urge that
drives artists to the edge of sanity in their pursuit of perfection.
• Jesus Christ Kinski is a novel about a film about a performance
about Jesus. It is a daring act of literary ventriloquism, a meditation
on censorship, creativity, loneliness – and just how far our tolerance
is tested by bad people who make great art