Summary
Franz Werfel: Song of Bernardica - historical novel about Lourdes
This masterpiece in the genre of historical novel has its own autobiographical thread. In 1938, Franz Werfel and his wife and Mahler's widow, Alma Mahler, fled from Nazi troops and took refuge in France, where he was also not safe. He fled from Sanary-sur-Mer to Lourdes and has been hiding since 1940. Although Jewish by religion, he is deeply moved by the story of Bernadette Soubirous, the little girl who first saw Our Lady in a cave. Werfel vows to write a novel about her if he is saved from the hell of war. When he arrived in the United States in 1942, he succeeded...
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