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 ...

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,” 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...