1990 will see the 100th anniversary of the birth of Franz Werfel. The time has therefore come to reassess this writer whom Kafka called a 'miracle' and who to this day has a large and devoted following. The essays collected in this volume were first given at an international symposium; they throw new light on various aspects of Werfel's poetry, ...
This book examines Werfel's concerns regarding the status and possibilities of individual identity. It follows Werfel's changing views on identity as he explored different community identifications.
A fictional autobiography of Alma Mahler, née Schindler, who had a propensity for taking up with famous men. She married the composer Gustav Mahler, had an affair with the painter Oscar Kokoschka, then married the architect Walter Gropius and, finally, the Austrian writer Franz Werfel. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
This book is the first to discuss the critical response to Franz Werfel (1890-1945), the German writer acclaimed in several genres, poetry, drama and the novel. His first collection of lyric poetry, Der Weltfreund (1911), made him famous in German-speaking countries as a leading Expressionist poet, admired by his contemporaries; his dramas were ...
There are numerous areas of scholarship to which a study of this sort contributes. Students of the history of American theater will welcome a recitation of the play's production history and a careful reading of its text. Historians, meanwhile, might find the subject helpful in illuminating some of the everyday responses to Nazi persecution by ...
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Avon Book Company
Date Published: 1945
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Anthology including stories by Ernest Hemingway, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woolcott, James Joyce, Franz Werfel, Pearl S. Buck, Louis Bromfield, W. R. Burnett and A. Merritt. 283 pages. Paperback. Avon Book Company No. 72. Later printing, undated except for 1945 copyright date. Note rear cover list of title numbers to 77. Condition: Very good. Clean, showing mild wear. Small chip missing from upper corner of ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: J. B. Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandl.
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9783476101150ISBN:3476101150
Description: Good +/No Jacket. 3476101150 Used, In German The cover has some wearing to the corners and edges and there are creases present on the spine. The FEP has the previous owners surname (Pasley) written in pencil present. The text has some marginalia pencil markings but is otherwise clean, bright and tight. read more
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