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...recent book might be expected to be, like the hastily-written volumes of so many other emigres, a keyhole explanation of recent events. But "Embezzled Heaven" is a much less shallow work than "Seven Mysteries" or "Why France Fell." It is essentially an analysis, a dissection of Teta Linek, the gnarled servant woman of pre-auschluss Austrian aristocrats. When her employers with all their culture and education were stamped out under the swastika, this sextagenarian could face the future with calmness. For she had purchased a seat amongst the blessed by educating a nephew for the priesthood--and there...
...through a pilgrimage to Italy and a talk with a young priest in that "intricate warren of death," the catacombs, Teta Linek found her salvation again. Observes Werfel's young priest: "These so-called simple souls are more complicated than all your high-class psyches that are equipped with the latest modern conveniences." In this complicated psyche Franz Werfel finds the first & last need of the storyteller: plot...
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