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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh: Verba Mundi (Paperback), cartea 20

Vartan Gregorian Autor Franz Werfel Traducere de Geoffrey Dunlop
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2011
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is Werfel's masterpiece that brought him international acclaim in 1933, drawing the world's attention to the Armenian genocide. This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages chose not to obey the deportation order of the Turkish government. Instead, they fortified a plateau on the slopes of Musa Dagh and repelled Turkish soldiers and military police while holding out hope for the warships of the Allies to save them.

The original English translation by Geoffrey Dunlop has been revised and expanded by translator James Reidel. The Dunlop translation had excised approximately 25% of the original text. The restoration of these passages and their new translation gives a fuller picture of the extensive inner lives of the characters. Reidel has also revised the existing translation to free Werfel's stronger usages from Dunlop's softening of meaning, his censoring of the novel to fit the mores and commercial contingencies of the mid-1930s.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781567924077
ISBN-10: 1567924077
Pagini: 893
Dimensiuni: 141 x 216 x 50 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: Verba Mundi
Seria Verba Mundi (Paperback)


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Franz Werfel (born 1890) was already a successful writer when in 1933 he publishedThe Forty Days of Musa Dagh, inspired by the desperate plight of Armenian children he had seen working in a Syrian carpet factory. A bestseller and Werfel's masterpiece, the book brought the Armenian genocide to the world's attention for the first time but was burned by the Nazis. Werfel, an Austrian Jew, was forced to flee Europe, narrowly escaping with his life. He died in Los Angeles in 1945.

Recenzii

Forty Dayswill invade your senses and keep the blood pounding. Once read, it will never be forgotten
In every sense a true and thrilling novel... It tells a story which it is almost one's duty as an intelligent human being to read. And one's duty here becomes one's pleasure also
Werfel's book ... did more than the efforts of any diplomat, journalist, or historian to encourage speech about the unspeakable. It arrives today as a timely reminder that savagery thrives in silence
A crackling read. Symphonic in its handling of profound themes, respectful of its most vacillating characters, Werfel's novel is a grand and satisfying story about the necessities and difficulties of leadership