Job and Adélia Prado: narrative voices and reception

Abstract

This article begins by recognizing that the narrative voice present in the prose segments at the opening and end of the book of Job (chapters 1, 2 and 42.7-17) guides the reader in understan- ding the large poetic block of the book (chapters 3 to 42.6). The next step is to build a compa- rative analysis with Adélia Prado’s poem: Story of Job, identifying the presence of quotations and appropriations of the poetic block of the biblical book. Finally, it explores the hypothesis that this procedure, by eliminating the original narrator, allows for the introduction of a new narrative voice and the construction of new meanings.