Franz Werfel (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Peter Stephan Jungk
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1890-1945
- Setting: Prague, Vienna, and Hollywood
- Principal Characters: Rudolf Werfel, Max Brad, Karl Kraus, Kurt Wolff, Martin Buber, Franz Kafra, Alma Maria Mabler Gropius
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Psychology
- Subjects: Exile or expatriates, Literature, Writing, Jews or Jewish life, Health, Miracles, Catholics or Catholic Church, Hollywood, Avant-garde, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians, Expressionism, Opera, operas, or operettas, Genocide
- Locales: Vienna, Austria, Hollywood, CA, Prague, Czechoslovakia
When Franz Werfel died of a heart attack in California in 1945, he was primarily known as the best-selling author of the novels Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh (1933; The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, 1934) and Das Lied von Bernadette (1941; The Song of Bernadette, 1942) and of the hit play, Jacobowsky und der Oberst (1944; Jacobowsky and the Colonel, 1944). He had been hailed by Armenians for faithfully presenting the story of the genocide practiced against them by the Turks and highly praised by Catholics for rendering the story of the miracle at...
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