Franz Werfel
Who is Franz Werfel
Franz Viktor Werfel (German: [fʁant͡s ˈvɛʁfl̩] (listen); 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
Life and career
Born in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Werfel was the first of three children of a wealthy manufacturer of gloves and leather goods, Rudolf Werfel. His moth...
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Franz Werfel Poems
- The Snowfall
Oh the slow fall of snow,
Its unending blanketing swirl!
Yet my mind's eye was giving shape
To what couldn't be kept hidden,
...
- Dead Friend Of My Youth
Now when you come all that way to meet me
From the country house of your death,
I know that you would remove your hat
To greet someone already old to you.
...
- The Creature's Stare
You stroke the fur of the big fine dog.
Looking way down into its eyes, you speak,
Pointing out for me the enormous sorrow
That's continuously fixed upon us.
...
- One Hour Ater The Dance Of Death
I lay in the abyss, where twisting squeezing
The lowest form of life pushed itself peristaltically.
Where slippery and slimy worm and eel entwined,
I was a worm myself, overwhelmed with exhaustion.
...
- I'm Still Just A Child
O Lord, tear me to pieces.
I'm still just a child.
And dare to sing
And call upon you ...
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Comments about Franz Werfel
- Lisaandrews55: music (gustav mahler); literature (franz werfel); art (oskar kokoschka); and architecture (walter gropius). it is possible that no pop-cultural muse will ever equal such a record, but if anyone came close in the modern era, it was the english beauty pattie boyd, whose
- 3abersabeel1970: “which road, which road did you take
that brought you here at last?
no road, no road did i take.
i leaped, i leaped from dream to dream."
expressionist poet and novelist franz werfel was born 1890
- Neurosocialself: no road,
no road did i take.
i leapt, i leapt
from dream to dream.
franz werfel
- Troveairraidbot: another australian newspaper article about air raids! 1 jul 1945, 'comedy of a tragedy. franz werfel’s play, jacobowsky and the colonel.':
- Rebbezev: which road, which road did you take
that brought you here at last?
no road, no road did i take.
i leapt, i leapt from dream to dream.
–franz werfel
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