Franz Werfel Boeken

Franz Werfel's masterpiece tells the true story of the inhabitants of six Armenian villages on the mountain of Musa Dagh, who choose to defy the deportation order of the Turkish government and are subsequently besieged on the mountainside. Told through the eyes of Gabriel Bagradian, a cosmopolitan Armenian who has returned to his home village with his French wife and son after years living in Europe, the novel is a rich and dramatic epic that powerfully argues for the value of resistance even in impossible circumstances.

An epic in novel form telling of the miraculous visions of a poor French girl at Lourdes.

The book highlights the scarcity and rising costs of early 20th-century literature, emphasizing the importance of preserving these classic works. It focuses on republishing them in accessible, high-quality editions that maintain the original text and artwork, making these historical pieces available to a wider audience.

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.

Set against a backdrop of existential struggle, this work by Franz Werfel delves into themes of temptation and moral conflict. The narrative explores the inner turmoil of its characters as they navigate their desires and the consequences of their choices. With rich, evocative prose, Werfel examines the complexities of human nature and the search for meaning in a chaotic world, making it a profound reflection on the human experience.

During World War I, Gabriel Bagradian learns of Turkish plans to exterminate the Armenians, and leads his village to the mountain Musa Dagh in hopes of defending themselves.