Franz Werfel, the faith of an exile : from Prague to Beverly Hills /
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...
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
1985
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| Series: | CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- List of Photographs
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Mystic Sources
- Chapter 2. The Great War
- Chapter 3. Social Conscience and Christian Quietism
- Chapter 4. Alma
- Chapter 5. Alma and Barbara
- Chapter 6. Alma and Franz: Political Counterpoint
- Chapter 7. Poetry and Politics: Werfel Between the Wars
- Chapter 8. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
- Chapter 9. Between Heaven and Earth
- Chapter 10. First Fruits of Exile: Cella's Austria and Embezzled Heaven
- Chapter 11. Historical Vision and Political Nostalgia: Twilight of a World, 1938-40Chapter 12. Vox Clamantis in Tusculum: Bernadette and the Bishop
- Chapter 13. A Special Relationship
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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