by Franz Werfel · S. Fischer Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783100910233
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«Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift» is the novel by Franz Werfel, published by S. Fischer Verlag in hardcover (179 pages, in German).
In 1936 Vienna, Leonidas Tachezy, a senior official married to an heiress, receives a letter from Vera Wormser, a youthful love, written in pale blue ink. The weight of a past secret and growing antisemitism force him to face a moral crossroads.
Written in 1940 and originally published in 1941, this edition belongs to the Fischer Bibliothek collection.
For readers interested in Central European literature of the twentieth century and historical novels about interwar Austria.
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.
