History Literature / TheNewJob

* HouseFey: When Theofil starts coming home at night to find his housework done, he is not quite superstitious enough to think of fairies, but he does suspect he's been visited by an angel. [[spoiler:It's actually being done by an orphan who stole food from him when she was starving and wants to pay him back.]]

* DiabolusExMachina: As befits a character called the "new Job," Theofil's life is marked by suffering and reversal. Some of these events, like [[spoiler:his entire family dying of cholera]], are fairly well set up and foreshadowed. Others, like [[spoiler:the plague of locusts]] or [[spoiler:his mysterious illness late in the book]], seem to come out of nowhere.

* HonorRelatedAbuse: Teenage Theofil's Jewish girlfriend, Joadan, is shunned by the Jewish community [[spoiler:and eventually killed]] because she wants to convert to Christianity and marry a Christian boy.

* GreedyJew: Most of the book's Jewish characters are presented in a generally negative light, including being greedy and exploitative. This is atypical for the author, who in real life (and in many of his other works) was a serious philo-Semite.

''Der Neue Hiob'' or ''The New Job'' (that's "Job" as in the Literature/BookOfJob) is an 1878 German-language novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (yes, ''[[Literature/VenusInFurs that]]'' Leopold von Sacher-Masoch). It tells the story of Theofil Pisarenko, a peasant in eastern Galicia (present-day UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}) as his life is impacted by nineteenth-century political upheavals and personal tragedies alike.

''Der Neue Hiob'' or ''The New Job'' (that's "Job" as in the Literature/BookOfJob) is an 1878 German-language novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (yes, ''[[Literature/VenusInFurs that]]'' Leopold von Sacher Masoch). It tells the story of Theofil Pisarenko, a peasant in eastern Galicia (present-day UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}) as his life is impacted by nineteenth-century political upheavals and personal tragedies alike.

* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: One character is baptized -- sacramentally "reborn" -- just before dying.

* ShaggyDogStory: Theofil's time in the military. He joins up, goes to Austria, fits in well enough but is homesick, impulsively decides to go AWOL one Christmas, manages to see his family, is caught and punished, serves out the rest of his stint, and... just goes back to the farm. None of this really affects the subsequent plot.

* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Near the end of the book, Theofil suffers from an illness which leaves him [[spoiler:mostly blind]]. He is finally cured [[spoiler:by a miracle]].

''The New Job'' (that's "Job" as in the Literature/BookOfJob) is an 1878 German-language novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (yes, ''[[Literature/VenusInFurs that]]'' Leopold von Sacher Masoch). It tells the story of Theofil Pisarenko, a peasant in eastern Galicia (present-day UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}) as his life is impacted by nineteenth-century political upheavals and personal tragedies alike.

''The New Job'' (that's "Job" as in the Literature/BookOfJob) is an 1878 German-language novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (yes, ''[[Literature/VenusInFurs that]]'' Leopold von Sacher Masoch). It tells the story of Theofil Pisarenko, a peasant in eastern Galicia (present-day [[UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}]]) as his life is impacted by nineteenth-century political upheavals and personal tragedies alike.

''The New Job'' (that's "Job" as in the Literature/BookOfJob) is an 1878 German-language novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (yes, ''[[Literature/VenusInFurs that]]'' Leopold von Sacher Masoch). It tells the story of Theofil Pisarenko, a peasant in eastern Galicia (present-day [[UsefulNotes/Ukraine]]) as his life is impacted by nineteenth-century political upheavals and personal tragedies alike.