SONG OF BERNADETTE—Franz Werfel—Viking ($3). Franz Werfel is a second-flight European man of letters with the schooled competence of his breed and with a reverence for the human spirit which too many ...

THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH—Franz Werfel—Viking ($3). To the ordinary U. S. reader, “Armenian” suggests Levantine rug-dealers, massacres, Michael Arlen. But last week Author Franz Werfel gave the word ...

“The Forty Days of Musa Dagh,” by Franz Werfel; translated by Geoffrey Dunlop (1934) and James Reidel (2012). Godine, 936 pp. $22.95. Although 2015 will be the 100th anniversary of the Armenian ...

Franz Werfel has written 6 shows including The Goat Song (Playwright), Schweiger (Playwright), Juarez and Maximilian (Playwright), The Eternal Road (Playwright), The Grand Tour (Source Material), Here ...

Best known for The Song of Bernadette (1941), which was turned into an Oscar-winning movie, Jewish writer Franz Werfel (1890–1945) was also the author of one of the most popular Book-of-the-Month Club ...

UTOPIAN romance is a subject on which taste is arbitrary. Around a hearth at a farmhouse we were playing the game of describing each his private utopia. It came to the surgeon’s turn. His utopia ...

Franz Werfel, Czech-Jewish poet, dramatist and novelist, died here last night after a heart attack. Werfel, who was 54, had been suffering from a heart ailment for several years. Best known in the ...