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Author: John M. Spalek Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3598441487 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 421
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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.
Author: John M. Spalek Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3598441487 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 421
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.
Author: Peter Stephan Jungk Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages :
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Czech-born playwright, novelist and poet Franz Werfel (1890-1945) became internationally famous(and a special target of the Nazis) after he wrote The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, the first novel about the Armenian Genocide. He later published the Catholic classic The Song of Bernadette, written after a deeply religious experience in Lourdes, a stop on his escape route to the United States through occupied France. Born into a wealthy family of Prague Jews, Werfel was torn between his Jewish identity and his attraction to Catholicism, between high art and popular success. He was friends with Franz Kafka and Max Brod in his youth and later and part of a larger Central European intellectual circle that included Sigmund Freud and Martin Buber. He married Alma Schindler-Mahler-Gropius (widow of composer Gustav Mahler and ex-wife of Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius). The couple fled Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938 and became part of the German exile community of California. They lived in Beverly Hills where Werfel died, a successful Hollywood screenwriter. “This lovely book is more than a biography — a meditation on art, history and human life.” — John Simon, New York Times Book Review “An exemplary biography.” Edward Timms, The Times Literary Supplement “Jungk’s description of how he researched his subject is highly suspenseful and reads like a detective story.” — Der Spiegel “This exemplary biography recalls Werfel’s career and its vanished settings as part of the cultural history of the West. Mr. Jungk also provides a searing picture of Werfel’s wife, the famous Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel...” — The New Yorker “This biography, ostensibly the story of a life, is really a broad panorama of culture and history... It is Jungk’s genius to seduce us into following him into Werfel’s world, and to keep us there, completely enthralled.” — Die Welt
Author: Alma Mahler-Werfel Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801486647 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 530
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The manuscript of Alma Mahler's Diaries, a pile of old exercise books, lay unread and seemingly illegible in the library of an American university. In search of the truth about Alma and Alexander Zemlinsky, Antony Beaumont read them and found what he was looking for. But he found far more: the authentic saga of one of the century's most charismatic personalities. The Diaries depict in intimate detail the four years during which Alma grew from adolescence into womanhood. Opening with her first, heady affair with Gustav Klimt, they break off shortly before her marriage to Gustav Mahler. "To me," writes Beaumont, "reading The Diaries is like raising a curtain, behind which stands the Vienna of 1900 in all its majesty, and so close that one can almost reach out and touch it. The vitality of everyday life, eye-witness accounts of significant artistic events, unique insights into the behavioral patterns and linguistic conventions of homo austriacus all these serve to make the book unique."Having come to grips with Alma's handwriting, Beaumont and his coeditor for the German edition, Susanne Rode-Breymann, added meticulously researched commentaries and annotations. The German edition was published in the autumn of 1997."
Author: Hans Wagener Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN: 9780872498839 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 216
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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.
Author: Franz Werfel Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher ISBN: 1567924085 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 130
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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.
Author: László Bús-Fekete Publisher: ISBN: Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 114
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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.
Author: Sorrel Kerbel Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135456070 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 702
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Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.
Author: John M. Spalek
Author: John M. Spalek
Author: Peter Stephan Jungk
Author: Peter Stephan Jungk
Author: Alma Mahler-Werfel
Author: Wolfgang Elfe
Author: Hans Wagener
Author: Franz Werfel
Author: Franz Werfel
Author: László Bús-Fekete
Author: Sorrel Kerbel