Will he resuscitate his ten children, raise the walls of his house and bring back the animals that were killed, The lord will find some way of compensating him , Cain is a farmer, but the lord doesn't seem to care much for what he produces so he dings brother Abel with the jawbone of the ass and takes off and then does the entire bible: Abraham and Isaac, the golden calf, Lot, Job, Sodom and Gomorra, the Walls of Jerico, Noah and the ark.Īnd in the process, we find another Cain, for Saramago has shaped him into the new everyman, looking at the world with a piercing clarity, wondering how it can be so mad and cruel.įor instance he asks some of the angels why the devil has been given carte blanche to abuse poor Job: "Can you explain to me why job should have been transformed into a leper, covered in suppurating wounds, having lost all his children and all his wealth?.
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