by Franz Werfel · Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783596293087
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«Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift» is the story by Franz Werfel, published by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH in paperback (154 pages, in German).
Vienna, 1936: Leonidas, a senior official married to the city's richest heiress, receives a letter from Vera Wormser, a former lover, asking him to help a Jewish boy who can no longer attend school in Nazi Germany. The encounter with the past confronts him with his conscience, his comfort, and the decisions that shaped his life.
The work was originally published in 1941; this paperback edition from Fischer Taschenbuch (1990) is number 9308 in the Erzähler-Bibliothek collection.
German edition aimed at language students and readers interested in twentieth-century Austrian narrative.
Franz Viktor Werfel was a Czech novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
