Faust, Golem, Hiob
Faustus, Golem, Job

Summary/Abstract: The presented text is a chapter from Faust et le Maharal de Prague: le mythe et le réel, with the author contrasting and commenting on the similarities and dissimilarities of the myth of Faustus and Golem, which he considers to be the most important mythical narrations in the Western world. The essential element of this analysis is placing Job against the background of the Faustus-Golem contradiction. “The mental association with Job and Faustus, on the one hand, and Job and Golem, on the other hand, left behind an inedible trace on the times in which I live. Job speaks to me via Faustus, but also through Golem. I am not compelled to devise the voice of Job when I am attracted by the problem of Faustus and Golem. The supreme intellectual authorities, the most credible analysts of Faustus and Golem connected them with the problem of Job”. The intellectual keystone of this analysis is the concept of the “wager” – so conspicuous in the Biblical Book of Job.

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