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Forty Days Of Musa Dagh
''The Forty Days of Musa Dagh'' () is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of the First World War and at the beginning of the Armenian genocide. The novel focuses on a small community of Armenians living near Musa Dagh, a mountain in Vilayet of Aleppo in the Ottoman Empire that defended themselves there. The mountain is now in Hatay Province, part of southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast. Events in Constantinople (Istanbul) and provincial capitals, where the Committee of Union and Progress Young Turk government orchestrated the deportations, concentration camps and massacres of the empire's Armenian citizens is also part of the book. This policy, as well as those who bore responsibility for it, has been controversial and contested since 1915. Because of this or perhaps in spite of it, the facts and scope of the Armenian Genocide were little known until Werfel's novel, which entailed voluminous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Werfel
Franz Viktor Werfel (; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of '' The Forty Days of Musa Dagh'' (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and '' The Song of Bernadette'' (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name. Early life Born in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), now the capital of the Czech Republic, Werfel was the first of three children of a wealthy manufacturer of gloves and leather goods, Rudolf Werfel. His mother, Albine Kussi, was the daughter of a mill owner. His two sisters were Hanna (born 1896) and Marianne Amalie (born 1899). His family was Jewish. As a child, Werfel was raised by his Czech Catholic governes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
