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Book Synopsis Understanding Franz Werfel by : Hans Wagener
Download or read book Understanding Franz Werfel written by Hans Wagener and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Embezzled Heaven written by FRANZ WERFEL and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Theatre, The Theatre Guild presents Ethel Barrymore in "Embezzled Heaven," a new play by L. Bush-Fekete and Mary Helen Fay, based on a novel by Franz Werfel, with Albert Basserman, Eduard Franz, Sanford Meisner, Martin Blaine, staged by B. Iden Payne, production designed by Stewart Chaney, production under the personal supervision of Theresa Helburn and Lawrence Langner.
Book Synopsis The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by : Franz Werfel
Download or read book The Forty Days of Musa Dagh written by Franz Werfel and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Franz Werfel by : Peter Stephan Jungk
Download or read book Franz Werfel written by Peter Stephan Jungk and published by Fromm International. This book was released on 1991 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand by : Franz Werfel
Download or read book Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand written by Franz Werfel and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Forbidden Music written by Michael Haas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. /div
Book Synopsis Between Heaven and Earth by : Franz Werfel
Download or read book Between Heaven and Earth written by Franz Werfel and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Manon's World written by James Reidel and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Prague Circle by : Stephen Shearier
Download or read book The Prague Circle written by Stephen Shearier and published by . This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of mostly Jewish German-speaking writers, the Prague Circle included some of the most significant figures in modern Western literature. Its core members, Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Franz Werfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Egon Erwin Kisch, are renowned for their seminal dramas, lyric poetry, novels, short stories, and essays on aesthetics. The writers of the Prague Circle were bound together not by a common perspective or a particular ideology, but by shared experiences and interests. From their vantage point in the Bohemian capital during the early decades of the twentieth century, they witnessed first-hand the collapse of the familiar and predictable, if not entirely comfortable, monarchical old order and the ascent of an anxious and uncertain modern era that led inexorably to fascism, militarization, and war. In order to deal with their new challenges, they considered strategies as diverse and oppositional as the members of the Prague Circle themselves. Their responses were shaped to various degrees by Catholicism, Zionism, expressionism, activism, anti-activism, international solidarity with the working class, and transcendence. Stephen Shearier explores how these authors aligned themselves on the spectrum of the Activism Debate, which preceded the much studied Expressionist Debate by a generation. This study examines the critical reception of these influential literary figures to determine how their legacies have been shaped.
Book Synopsis The Flight Portfolio by : Julie Orringer
Download or read book The Flight Portfolio written by Julie Orringer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Invisible Bridge comes a gripping tale of forbidden love, high-stakes adventure, and unimaginable courage filled with "suspense and tragedy, unexpected twists and deliverance” (The Seattle Times). • THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES TRANSATLANTIC MARSEILLE, 1940. Varian Fry, a Harvard-educated journalist and editor, arrives in France. Recognizing the darkness descending over Europe, he and a group of like-minded New Yorkers formed the Emergency Rescue Committee, helping artists and writers escape from the Nazis and immigrate to the United States. Amid the chaos of World War II, and in defiance of restrictive U.S. immigration policies, Fry must procure false passports, secure visas, seek out escape routes through the Pyrenees and by sea, and make impossible decisions about who should be saved, all while under profound pressure—and in a state of irrevocable personal change. In this dazzling work of historical fiction—one that illuminates previously unexplored elements of Fry’s story, and has, since its publication, brought us new insight into his life.
Book Synopsis Prague Territories by : Scott Spector
Download or read book Prague Territories written by Scott Spector and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Spector’s adventurous cultural history maps for the first time the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the twentieth century. Spector explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished, revealing previously unseen relationships between politics and culture. His incisive readings of a broad array of German writers feature the work of Kafka and the so-called "Prague circle" and encompass journalism, political theory, Zionism, and translation as well as literary program and practice. With the collapse of German-liberal cultural and political power in the late-nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, Prague’s bourgeois Jews found themselves squeezed between a growing Czech national movement on the one hand and a racial rather than cultural conception of Germanness on the other. Displaced from the central social and cultural position they had come to occupy, the members of the "postliberal" Kafka generation were dazzlingly productive and original, far out of proportion to their numbers. Seeking a relationship between ideological crisis and cultural innovation, Spector observes the emergence of new forms of territoriality. He identifies three fundamental areas of cultural inventiveness related to this Prague circle’s political and cultural dilemma. One was Expressionism, a revolt against all limits and boundaries, the second was a spiritual form of Zionism incorporating a novel approach to Jewish identity that seems to have been at odds with the pragmatic establishment of a Jewish state, and the third was a sort of cultural no-man’s-land in which translation and mediation took the place of "territory." Spector’s investigation of these areas shows that the intensely particular, idiosyncratic experience of German-speaking Jews in Prague allows access to much broader and more general conditions of modernity. Combining theoretical sophistication with a refreshingly original and readable style, Prague Territories illuminates some early signs of a contemporary crisis from which we have not yet emerged.
Book Synopsis Franz Werfel, the Faith of an Exile by : Lionel Steiman
Download or read book Franz Werfel, the Faith of an Exile written by Lionel Steiman and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1985-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the thought of the Austrian Jewish writer, many of whose works reflect the deep ambivalence of the Jews' relationship with Western culture and Christianity. The Jewish characters in his books are often stereotypes, influenced by Werfel's education by antisemitic monks. Ch. 13 (p. 165-188), "A Special Relationship, " deals with Werfel's attitude to Judaism, and pp. 177-188 with his theory of antisemitism and Nazism. While believing in Christ, he viewed the rejection of Christ by the Jews, and antisemitism, as theologically necessary and refused to convert.
Book Synopsis Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile by : Lionel Steiman
Download or read book Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile written by Lionel Steiman and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis About Franz Werfel ... by : Gustave Otto Arlt
Download or read book About Franz Werfel ... written by Gustave Otto Arlt and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Holy Life by : Patricia A. Mceachern
Download or read book A Holy Life written by Patricia A. Mceachern and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the story of the apparitions of Our Lady to Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes in 1858 are well known, relatively few people are familiar with the saint's own spiritual insights and profound holiness. For the first time in English, this book presents a wide selection of St. Bernadette's thoughts, advice, sayings, and prayers through the touching words of her spiritual diary, notes, and letters to friends and family. After receiving the visions of Our Lady at the grotto in Lourdes, Bernadette eventually became a religious sister as a member of the Sisters of Charity. She lived a life of simplicity, charity, suffering and deep holiness, dying at the age of 35. When she was canonized a saint, her body was found to be incorrupt. In these beautiful writings of St. Bernadette, we learn the secrets of her holiness and happiness. Though she suffered greatly throughout her life, the heroic response of this humble, self-effacing nun transformed excruciating suffering into spiritual fruitfulness. Her letters and writings serve as a model for others passing through their own trials. Her writings reveal and intimate and profound love for God and neighbor. Anyone pursuing a deeper spiritual life will appreciate knowing Bernadette as she truly was, and the inspiring spiritual works of wisdom she offers to us all.
Book Synopsis The Bride of the Wind by : Susanne Keegan
Download or read book The Bride of the Wind written by Susanne Keegan and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1992 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perceptive, sweepingly dramatic biography of the astonishing woman who was wife, muse, and mistress to a generation of geniuses--composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, novelist Franz Werfel, and painter Oskar Kokoschka. "The most balanced biography of Alma Mahler yet to have appeared".--The Times Literary Supplement (London). Photographs.
Book Synopsis Crossing the Hudson by : Peter Stephan Jungk
Download or read book Crossing the Hudson written by Peter Stephan Jungk and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gustav Rubin, a fur dealer in Vienna, flies to New York to spend the summer with his wife and two young children in a lake house north of the city. When he arrives late at JFK, he is met by his opinionated, unrelenting mother, Rosa. They rent a car and set out for Lake Gilead. But Gustav loses his way, and son and mother end up on the wrong side of the river. Trying to find the right route north, they become trapped on the Tappan Zee Bridge in the traffic jam of all traffic jams– a truck transporting toxic chemicals has turned over–and Gustav and Mother remain gridlocked high above the Hudson River. Gustav begins to think of his beloved father, a renowned intellectual, now eleven months dead. Then, in a surprising, highly original twist worthy of Kafka, both Gustav and Mother see the body–"the colossal, golem-like fatherbody" – of Ludwig David Rubin floating naked in the waters below. Jungk gives a profound meditation on a Jewish family and its past, especially the lasting distorting effects on a son of a famous, vital father and a clinging, overwhelming mother, and of the differences between the generation of European intellectual refugees who arrived in the United States during the Second World War and the children of that generation.
