The satire of the anti-prophet:: irony in Jonah’s narrative

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Lucas Alamino Iglesias
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Teoliterária
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/teoliteraria/article/view/47162
• topic: Jonas; ironia; sátira; Jonah; irony; satire

The book of Jonah has been widely known as a literary masterpiece. Over the last decades, scholars have explored narrative features of the book as a whole emphasizing its form and content. However, among these literary analyses, few have mentioned a key phenomenon to comprehend the book: the presence of irony. In the book o Jonah, irony is a key to disclose the multiple levels of interconnection between the various parts of the book. Essential to the characterization, it plays with the reader’s expectations; all characters act opposed to the expected. Irony is also related with point of view; the narrator explores it through the words he puts into the mouth of the characters. Finally there is irony in the way these words echo other texts form the canon; the king of Nineveh’s speech, for example, reproduce the words of Moses in Ex. 32 and 34. Through a narrative criticism analysis, this article aims to explore how irony operates making this book the satire of a anti-prophet.