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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Author: Franz WerfelUnderstanding Franz Werfel
Author: Hans WagenerPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872498839
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Describes the life & work of the Austrian poet & novelist who heralded the German Expressionist movement in 1911, wrote some of Europe's most widely read novels in the 1930s, & enjoyed popular success in the 1940s with the film adaptations of his best-selling novels.
Between Heaven and Earth
Author: Franz WerfelPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787204995
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
First published in its English translation during World War II in 1944, the first part of this book is composed of lectures originally delivered (in German) during the pre-war period, whilst the second part of the book represents author Franz Werfel’s present point of view, arriving at the difficult conclusion that “complete human detachment is the first psychological symptom of spirituality...” “The outstanding contribution of this book is its frank rejection of the materialistic philosophy and an emphasis in favor of the spiritual interpretation of life. There are beautiful passages written with characteristic artistry.”—Kirkus Review
Franz Werfel
Author: Peter Stephan JungkPublisher: Fromm International
ISBN: 9780880641302
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile
Author: Lionel SteimanPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554587964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 and died in Beverly Hills in 1945, a popular and artistic success in Europe and America. Despite his Jewish birth and upbringing, he was attracted to Christianity at any early age, and although he never formally converted, he celebrated his own vision of it in his entire life's work. The origina sof that peculiar faith and the response it engendered in Werfel's work as he lived thorough the horrific end of Jewish life in Europe are treated here. Werfel was not a systematic thinker, and, while his writing contains much that is philosophical and theological, his eclecticism and idiosyncracy render any attempt to trace the specific origins of his thought or its relation to the work of contemporary philosophers and theologians highly problematic. Thus, this work is neither biography nor intellectual history in the strict sense—it goes beyond, melding the concerns of both genres into a thoughtful, comprehensive portrait of faith at work. Of interest to historians of the twentieth century as well as to students of that intriguing zone that lies between faith and art but is neither—or both.
Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand
Author: Franz WerfelPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 1567924085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This story is about a long suppressed love triangle between Leonidas Tachezy, a high-level Austrian career bureaucrat, his younger, trophy wife Amelie, and a Jewish woman from his past, Vera Wormser, with whom he'd fallen in love when she was fourteen. After his marriage, Leonidas encounters Vera in a German university town where she is studying philosophy. He makes a promise that implies marriage, but drops out of her life entirely to return to a comfortable existence until one day when a letter arrives, addressed with Vera's unmistakable handwriting in pale blue ink. Like Humbert Humbert in Lolita, Leonidas explains his "crime" against Vera to an imaginary courtroom in a way that anticipates Nabokov.
The Song of Bernadette
Author: Franz WerfelEmbezzled Heaven
Author: László Bús-FeketePublisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Dramatic adaptation of Werfel's novel about a good-natured, naive, and religious woman who believes in the reward of heaven if she sends all her earnings to her nephew so that he can become a priest.
Manon's World
Author: James ReidelPublisher:
ISBN: 9780857427496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Manon Gropius had three parents. She was the daughter of Alma Mahler (the widow of Gustav Mahler) and her second husband, Walter Gropius (the architect and founder of the Bauhaus school), and also was the stepdaughter of Alma's third husband, Franz Werfel. Manon's World explores the life and death of a child at the center of a broken love triangle. Not just a narrative biography, Manon's World is a medical history of the polio that killed Manon and an intimate cultural history of the aspirations projected on her, as seen by the Nobel Prize-winner Elias Canette who devoted two chapter of his memoirs to his encounters with Manon. In the same spirit, the composer Alban Berg dedicated his Violin Concerto to her. Reidel reveals a complex image of a young woman who desired to be an actress and artist in her own right despite being her mother’s intended protégé, an inspiration to her father who rarely saw her, and her stepfather Franz Werfel. -- Adapted from dust jacket.
Franz Werfel: Bibliography of German Editions
Author: John M. SpalekPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3598441487
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This volume is the first comprehensive bibliography of all Werfel publications in German language and thus a complete history of the publication of Werfel's works. All works are arranged alphabetically by title, followed by all other editions grouped by publisher. Each bibliographical entry contains the edition's designation, all the information from the title sheet, a description of the volume, the location and detailed explanatory notes.
