For For readers of his plays and his biblical imagination; an early wartime drama, of mainly biographical interest.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
2 of 5useful
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
An early play of 1940, written under the German occupation, on the biblical Book of Job.
How it proceeds
Philosophic1 of 5
Scriptural4 of 5
Experiential3 of 5
Sociological2 of 5
Historical1 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
One of Karol Wojtyła's two earliest surviving plays, written in 1940, during the German occupation of Kraków, when he was working as a labourer and taking part in the clandestine cultural life of the city. It is a drama on the biblical Book of Job. Its date of first publication could not be confirmed for this record.