The book of Job: one of the paradigms of Mon Cas

Abstract

The play O meu caso (1957), by José Régio, was the theme for the film Mon cas (1986), by Portu- guese director Manoel de Oliveira. Starting from the argument proposed by the Regian play, Manoel de Oliveira creates the argument for his film by adding elements collected in Pour en finir et autres foirades, by Samuel Beckett, a text published in English, by Still English Publhisher, in 1970, and in French by Éditions of Minuit, in 1975, and in the Book of Job, inscribed in the Old Testament. This study intends to take a look at the first two texts, that is, the Portuguese play and the Beckettian narrative, to focus on the biblical text, in order to seek the paths that led the Portuguese director to draw a parallel that obviously has its genesis in the concept of suffering, among the discourses listed.