The Culturally Complex Individual
Subtitle: Franz Werfel's Reflections on Minority Identity and Historical Depiction in the Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780838753934
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; European - German; German Novel And Short Story; Literature And Society; Literary Criticism; 1890-1945; History in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; In literature; Minorities in literature; Turkey; Vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh; Werfel, Franz,; French
Description: "This book examines Franz Werfel's concerns regarding the status and possibilities of individual identities. Chapter one traces the development of his thoughts on identity as he explored such options as the human community, ethnicity and the Volk, national allegiances, and religious groups."--BOOK JACKET. "The remaining chapters are devoted to the 1933 novel Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh."--BOOK JACKET.