by Franz Werfel · Espasa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467000337
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Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of music and artistic rivalry with 'The Opera Novel' by Franz Werfel. In this captivating story, the renowned composer Giuseppe Verdi travels to Venice to witness firsthand the talent of his greatest competitor, Richard Wagner. Set in the 19th century, the novel explores the clash between two visions of art and the world, personified in these two musical geniuses. Werfel, a renowned Austrian novelist, poet, and playwright, weaves an engaging plot that will transport you to an era of revolution and artistic passion.
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.
