The Book of Job
A prosperous and blameless man loses his herds, his children and his health after a wager struck in heaven that he never learns about. Three friends arrive to explain that suffering must be deserved, and he argues back across thirty chapters, demanding a hearing from God himself. The oldest sustained protest against the idea that the world is just.
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Lineage
- ↓ King Lear
- ↓ The Brothers Karamazov
- ↓ Jude the Obscure
- ↓ The Plague
- ↓ The Old Man and the Sea
- ↓ The Seventh Seal
- ↓ A Serious Man
- ↓ Paradise Regained
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