Song of Bernadette. Black Mass
19.99 €
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Song of Bernadette. Black Mass
19.99 €
Franz Werfel - a classic of twentieth-century Austrian literature, a Prague poet, writer and playwright, a student of Gustav Meyrinck, an associate and friend of Max Brod, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Musil, Martin Buber - was a star. He was considered the face of German-language expressionism and, along with Franz Kafka and Max Brod, was a member of the "Prague Circle," a group of writers and poets who, before the outbreak of World War I, were inventing an unprecedented voice for a new literature. Werfel's poetry was admired by the maestros; his plays were staged throughout Europe. Werfel had a developed sense of the tragic, terrible and funny, almost journalistic observation, romantic, sometimes mystical view of the world and a rare ability to catch the subtle movements of the human soul. Werfel's later novel "Song of Bernadette", a heartfelt and bribing his reporter's accuracy story of a French saint, which in Lourdes was the Virgin Mary, became a bestseller in the U.S. and was screened in 1943; Werfel's novels and stories combine high-voltage intensity with sympathetic irony, and religious pathos with the deep sadness of a man who survived one war, fled halfway around the world to escape another, never looked away, and understood more clearly than ever the world into which he was born.
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