Library of Rassegna iberistica

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Chapter | El Job de Quevedo y la indignación

El Job de Quevedo y la indignación

Abstract

This study examines Quevedo’s La constancia y paciencia del santo Job from its biblical source text through to 16th and 17th century commentators and translators (Horozco y Covarrubias, Guillaume Du Vair, Jacques-Auguste de Thou, José Gallo, Cipriano de la Huerga, Diego de Zúñiga, Juan de Pineda, etc.). In particular, I analyze the interpretation of Job 3,25-26. In his exegesis of the term indignatio, Quevedo imagines that the word does not refer to the wrath of God but to Job’s indignation at the behaviour of the kings, his friends who although seeing him in trouble do not help him. With his use of this Biblical verse Quevedo makes an accusation against his own friends who do not come to his aid at the time of his captivity in the convent of San Marcos in León. Moreover, the notion of shame is closely examined through the studies of Rawls, Williams, Girard, Nussbaum.  


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Submitted: July 23, 2015 | Language: it

Keywords Book of Job • Shame • Quevedo

Copyright © 2017 Valentina Nider. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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