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...FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH-Franz Werfel-Viking...
...ordinary U. S. reader, "Armenian" suggests Levantine rug-dealers, massacres, Michael Arlen. But last week Author Franz Werfel gave the word a new and heroic significance. In The Forty Days of Musa Dagh he recited an Armenian epic founded on an actual incident of the World War. Humanizing one more bloody no-man's-land, this 817-page novel immediately takes its place, with All Quiet on the Western Front and The Case of Sergeant Grischa, as one of the War's big books...
...Author-Arnold Zweig is one of the postWar, German-Jewish writers (others: Lion Feuchtwanger, Emil Ludwig. Franz Werfel) who have made present-day German letters something for smart U. S. publishers to conjure with. Professorial-looking, no friend of war, he was not raised to be a soldier but a professor. Some five universities, years of study in philosophy, languages. French and English literature, graduated him to pick & shovel work in a Labor Corps. Like his hero Bertin he sweated his spectacles steamy in Macedonia, Serbia, northern France, spent 13 months at Verdun before he settled down on the Eastern...
...PURE IN HEART-Franz Werfel- Simon & Schuster ($3). Ferdinand was ship's doctor on a Mediterranean liner. He kept himself to him- self, and his assistant's curiosity, already well tickled, was further titillated when he saw Ferdinand one night drop something overboard. What Ferdinand dropped and how he came to have it, form the motif of this carefully written, 610-page novel, which the Book League has nominated as its May choice. Ferdinand, son of an Austrian colonel, was orphaned young, and his old nurse Barbara became practically his foster-mother. A defenseless but not stupid...
...Author. Manhattan audiences know Franz Werfel as a playwright, author of Goat Song, Schweiger, Juarez und Maximilian. But he started up Parnassus as a poet. A Jew, a native of Prague, Werfel wears his hair a la Beethoven, is highly thought of in Europe. Other books: Verdi, The Man Who Conquered Death, Class Reunion...