For For readers of his plays and of his early patriotic and biblical writing; 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 occupation, taking the prophet Jeremiah as its subject.
How it proceeds
Philosophic1 of 5
Scriptural4 of 5
Experiential3 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical2 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, the same year as Job, during the German occupation of Poland. Like Job, it takes a biblical subject, the prophet Jeremiah. Its date of first publication could not be confirmed for this record.
