Name: the song of bernadette
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Author: Franz Werfel
ISBN: 9781586171711

Type

Physical Book

Author

Franz Werfel

Publisher

Ignatius Press

Language

English

Pages

605

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.3 x 3.9 cm

Weight

0.65 kg.

ISBN

1586171712

ISBN13

9781586171711

Synopsis "the song of bernadette"

This is the classic work that tells the true story surrounding the miraculous visions of St. Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes, France in 1858. Werfel, a highly respected anti-Nazi writer from Vienna, became a Jewish refugee who barely escaped death in 1940, and wrote this moving story to fulfill a promise he made to God. While hiding in the little village of Lourdes, Werfel felt the Nazi noose tightening, and realizing that he and his wife might well be caught and executed, he made a promise to God to write about the "song of Bernadette" that he had been inspired by during his clandestine stay in Lourdes. Though Werfel was Jewish, he was so deeply impressed by both Bernadette and the happenings at Lourdes, that his writing has a profound sense of Catholic understanding."On re-reading The Song, what struck me most about Werfel's craft was how deeply this Jewish writer, who had long been interested in Catholicism but who had never converted, had entered into Catholicism's sacramental imagination. For all its unsparing depiction of the poverty of the French Pyrenees, the pettiness of local officialdom, the skepticism and institutional-mindedness of local churchmen, The Song of Bernadette is shot through with a sense of the extraordinary that lies on the far side of the ordinary, revealing itself through the simplest things." --George Weigel, from the Foreword

Franz Werfel

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Franz Werfel fue un escritor, dramaturgo y poeta austríaco nacido en 1890 en Praga, entonces parte del Imperio austrohúngaro, y fallecido en 1945 en Los Ángeles. Su escritura se caracteriza por una mezcla de sensibilidad lírica, exploración ética y profundo compromiso con problemas humanos y sociales de su tiempo. Werfel se movió entre la poesía, el teatro y la novela, lo que le permitió abordar distintos registros narrativos sin perder un pulso que siempre buscaba resonar más allá de lo meramente estético.

Una de sus obras más conocidas es Los cuarenta días del Musa Dagh, un relato épico que dramatiza la resistencia de la comunidad armenia durante el genocidio de 1915, y que ha sido leído como un testimonio literario de lucha, memoria y dignidad frente a la barbarie. Este libro consolidó su reputación como narrador capaz de entretejer hechos históricos con una humanidad intensa, llevando al lector a experimentar tanto la dimensión trágica como la resistencia espiritual de los personajes. Su legado sigue vivo como ejemplo de literatura comprometida con la memoria colectiva.

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