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...year in which established writers like Lewis, Mann, Gather, Millay, Huxley, Caldwell, Faulkner, Werfel, Farrell, O'Hara continued to pour out their hearts and more especially their words. It was the year in which Thomas Wolfe's last work was published. His book seemed less like the new start he had hoped it was than an effort to clear his desk and brain for that new start...
EMBEZZLED HEAVEN-Franz Werfel-Viking...
...Nights, the fabliaux, The Canterbury Tales, the Grimms' folk stories have a magic rarely found in latter ages. That this magic is less a patina than the product of skill and feeling is shown by the occasional appearance of a real storyteller's story. Such is Franz Werfel's Embezzled Heaven...
Like Chaucer and Somerset Maugham, Werfel himself sits in a dim corner in the role of storyteller: "I knew Teta. . . . It could never have entered my mind that I should one day attempt to record the history of this old serving-woman who could only barely read and write." Like the Grimms and W. H. Hudson, Werfel suggests the far away and long ago: "Yet now I am sitting here, at a strange table in an alien land, painfully evoking the memory of a world that has been submerged into the past. . . ." Like Scheherazade and O. Henry, Werfel...
...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...