The timidity that the young Werfel felt outside the synagogue and his sense of unworthiness before the process it represented were both compensated by his lifelong devotion to Catholicism, and the feelings he harboured outside the walls of that house of worship repeated the earlier awesome yearnings of the tender youth. [...] For this son is the next link, binding humans to the Last Judgement, the end of all things, the consummation."27 In Werfel's last work, Star of the Unborn, civiliza- tion itself is saved by the son's atonement for the guilt of the father.28 Werfel returned from Hamburg to Prague within the year and com- pleted his Freiwilligenjahr, the voluntary one-year term of military service, following which h [...] He does this not as a criticism of war but as an attack on those who see in it some kind of grand "metaphysical awakening." His "Ulan," a Polish Jew in the Austrian cavalry, achieves metaphysical awakening not in the intoxication of battle, but in the divine madness that falls upon him on hearing the death cry of The Great War 19 his victim and recognizing in it the Jewish confession of faith, the [...] But the only metaphysical awakening possible in war is the Ulan's painful and ironic recognition: the awakening that others seek and falsely see in war, the moral triumph of love in military glory, can be achieved only in the conquest of war by a prior metaphysical awakening of the power of love in peace. [...] Looking back from America in 1942, Werfel called the poetry in Einander "an outcry against the forces that terrorize the world again today 20 Franz Werfel — The Faith of an Exile and which at that time had the names of Hindenburg and Ludendorff."14 In so emphasizing the specifically historical as temporal accident, Werfel generalized the essence of war and placed it beyond the reach of analysis.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography: p. 229-239
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 838/.91209
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780889205932 0889201684
- LCCN
- PT2647.E77
- LCCN Item number
- Z814 1985eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xi, 244 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)rjv00101432 (OCoLC)243581038 (CaOOCEL)402362
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- List of Photographs 10
- Acknowledgements 12
- Introduction 14
- Chapter 1. Mystic Sources 22
- Chapter 2. The Great War 30
- Chapter 3. Social Conscience and Christian Quietism 36
- Chapter 4. Alma 50
- Chapter 5. Alma and Barbara 58
- Chapter 6. Alma and Franz: Political Counterpoint 70
- Chapter 7. Poetry and Politics: Werfel Between the Wars 80
- Chapter 8. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh 88
- Chapter 9. Between Heaven and Earth 102
- Chapter 10. First Fruits of Exile: Cella's Austria and Embezzled Heaven 116
- Chapter 11. Historical Vision and Political Nostalgia: Twilight of a World, 1938-40 136
- Chapter 12. Vox Clamantis in Tusculum: Bernadette and the Bishop 156
- Chapter 13. A Special Relationship 178
- Afterword 202
- Notes 208
- Bibliography 242
- Index 254
- A 254
- B 254
- C 254
- D 255
- E 255
- F 255
- G 255
- H 255
- I 255
- J 255
- K 255
- L 255
- M 256
- N 256
- O 256
- P 256
- R 256
- S 256
- T 256
- V 257
- W 257
- Y 257
- Z 257
