Franz Werfel, Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh [The Forty Days of Musa Dagh]

Hans Wagener (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.2: German-language Writing and Culture: Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, 800-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

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First circulation or publication 1933

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Czech Republic (Country of Origin)

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The novel

Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh

[

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

] was first published at the end of 1933 in two volumes in German (Vienna: Paul Zsolnay) and in the following year in English translation (transl. Geoffrey Dunlop. New York: Viking; republished as

The Forty Days

. London: Jerrolds). In his novel Werfel deals with the fate of a small group of Armenian farmers and craftsmen who are resisting annihilation by the Turks in 1915 during World War I and also with the personal fate of their leader, Gabriel Bagradian. The son of a wealthy Armenian family, Gabriel has lived in Paris for twenty-three years as an archeologist, art historian, and a philosopher who is financially independent due to his family's wealth. He had married a beautiful French woman, Juliette, who bore him one…

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Citation: Wagener, Hans. "Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 September 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=22184, accessed 23 November 2024.]

Franz Werfel, Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh [The Forty Days of Musa Dagh]

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