by Franz Werfel · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433906571
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In 'A Pale Blue Female Hand', Franz Werfel transports us to Vienna in 1936. A senior ministry official, married to a Viennese lady, receives a letter that unearths a past love. The letter, written in pale blue handwriting, reveals a buried love and raises the possibility of an unknown son. Werfel intertwines the psychological study with the social analysis, offering a reflection on the social pressures and the loss of authenticity in the protagonist's life. This masterpiece is a bitter farewell to Vienna and Central European civilization.
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.
