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Karl Glogauer is the protagonist
Protagonist

A protagonist is the main Character of a drama or Narrative. The word "protagonist" derives from the Greek language p??ta????st?? , "one who plays the first part, chief actor." In the theatre of Ancient Greece, three actors played all of the main dramatic roles in a tragedy; the leading role was played by the protagonist, while the othe...
 of two novels by Michael Moorcock
Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy fiction who has also published a number of literary novels....
, and a secondary character in additional novels and short stories
Short story

The short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels or books....
. In Behold the Man
Behold the Man

Behold the Man is a science fiction novel by Michael Moorcock. It originally appeared as a novella in a 1966 issue of New Worlds ; later, Moorcock produced an expanded version which was first published in 1969 by Allison & Busby.....
, he acts as a surrogate
Surrogate

Surrogate may refer to:Cultural relationships:* Surrogate pregnancy, an arrangement for a woman to carry and give birth to a child who will be raised by others...
 Christ after travelling to 28 AD in a time machine
Time travel

Time travel is the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects backwards in time to a moment before the present, or sending objects forward from the present to the future without the need to experience the intervening period ....
. The novel Breakfast in the Ruins
Breakfast in the Ruins

Breakfast in the Ruins: A Novel of Inhumanity is a 1972 novel by Michael Moorcock, which mixes historical fiction and speculative fiction....
 contains a somewhat different Glogauer, centering on a homosexual love affair between him and an unnamed man from Nigeria
Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federation constitutional republic comprising States of Nigeria and one Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria....
. The chapters of the novel are interspersed with detailed, though fiction, fantasies about Glogauer's past lives.

Some of the aspects of Glogauer's childhood as described in Behold the Man are based on Moorcock's own childhood, though he says "I had such a happy childhood I had a hard time finding material, especially for the novel version".






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Karl Glogauer is the protagonist
Protagonist

A protagonist is the main Character of a drama or Narrative. The word "protagonist" derives from the Greek language p??ta????st?? , "one who plays the first part, chief actor." In the theatre of Ancient Greece, three actors played all of the main dramatic roles in a tragedy; the leading role was played by the protagonist, while the othe...
 of two novels by Michael Moorcock
Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy fiction who has also published a number of literary novels....
, and a secondary character in additional novels and short stories
Short story

The short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels or books....
. In Behold the Man
Behold the Man

Behold the Man is a science fiction novel by Michael Moorcock. It originally appeared as a novella in a 1966 issue of New Worlds ; later, Moorcock produced an expanded version which was first published in 1969 by Allison & Busby.....
, he acts as a surrogate
Surrogate

Surrogate may refer to:Cultural relationships:* Surrogate pregnancy, an arrangement for a woman to carry and give birth to a child who will be raised by others...
 Christ after travelling to 28 AD in a time machine
Time travel

Time travel is the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects backwards in time to a moment before the present, or sending objects forward from the present to the future without the need to experience the intervening period ....
. The novel Breakfast in the Ruins
Breakfast in the Ruins

Breakfast in the Ruins: A Novel of Inhumanity is a 1972 novel by Michael Moorcock, which mixes historical fiction and speculative fiction....
 contains a somewhat different Glogauer, centering on a homosexual love affair between him and an unnamed man from Nigeria
Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federation constitutional republic comprising States of Nigeria and one Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria....
. The chapters of the novel are interspersed with detailed, though fiction, fantasies about Glogauer's past lives.

Some of the aspects of Glogauer's childhood as described in Behold the Man are based on Moorcock's own childhood, though he says "I had such a happy childhood I had a hard time finding material, especially for the novel version". Likewise, Glogaeur's frequent headaches were also inspired by migraines that Moorcock suffered from, although these were later discovered to be caused by an adverse reaction to nicotine rather than any psychological causes as in Glogauer's case ()

In Behold the Man, and at the start of Breakfast in the Ruins, Glogauer is white but by the end of Breakfast he has become black. (Similarly, Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius
Jerry Cornelius

Jerry Cornelius is a fictional character secret agent and adventurer created by science fiction / fantasy author Michael Moorcock. Cornelius is a hip secret agent of ambiguous and occasionally polymorphous human sexuality; the same characters featured in each of several Cornelius books, though the individual books had little connection with o...
 is white in The Final Programme but black in A Cure For Cancer.)

Other Appearances

Karl Galgauer also makes appearances - or is mentioned - in the following books/short stories:

  • The English Assassin (appears)
  • The End of All Songs (appears)
  • The Adventures of Jerry Cornelius (comic strip) (appears - where he bears a remarkable similarity to Moorcock)
  • The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century (mentioned)
  • The Peking Junction (mentioned)
  • The Eternal Champion (mentioned)
  • The Condition of Muzak (reported that he was at the party with just about everyone else)