Hearken Unto the Voice
by Franz Werfel
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304. Hearken unto the Voice, by Franz Werfel (read 19 Jan 1947) On Jan 14, 1947, I said: Began reading Hearken Unto the Voice. It is a big book; starts quite auspiciously. I'll see how I like it." On Jan 16 I said of the book: "Well-written." On Jan 17 said: "Read tonight in Hearken, which, while not a book that absorbs me, certainly amazes me by the sweep of its drama." On Jan 19, this: "Finished tonight "hearken Unto the Voice" by Franz Werfel. One of the longest books I've read. Powerful and sweeping, though with dull parts at the forepart of the book, it is the story of Jeremiah the prophet."
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Born in Prague of Jewish parents, Werfel served in World War I, then lived and wrote in Vienna until driven out by the Nazi occupation of Austria. And the Bridge Was Love: Memories of a Lifetime, by his wife, Alma Werfel, in collaboration with E. B. Ashton, is a deeply personal autobiography of a remarkable life in Vienna by the woman who was also show more married to the composer-conductor Mahler and the architect Gropius. Werfel escaped to the United States after the fall of France in 1940, where he won international recognition for his fiction. The most popular of Werfel's works was the novel The Song of Bernadette (1942), recounting the miraculous vision of the Virgin Mary granted to the young girl who founded Lourdes. Werfel said he wrote the story in honor of his "miraculous" escape from the Nazis but neither affirmed nor denied the miracle at Lourdes. Werfel also wrote lyrical poetry and drama. His comedy Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944) was successfully produced in New York in 1944. In 1967 the Hamburg Opera presented Giselher Klebe's operatic version of the play at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Hearken Unto the Voice
- Original title
- Höret die Stimme : Roman
- People/Characters
- Jeremiah, the prophet; Josiah, son of Amon and Jedidah, King of Judah; Chamutal; Jehoahaz, king of Judah, son of King Josiah; Jehoiakim, king of Judah; Jeconiah, King (show all 14); Zedekiah, last king of Judah; Baruch, Jeremiah's secretary; Chananiah; Chilkiah, Jeremiah's father; Abi, Jeremiah's mother; Zenua; Cher-Hep; Nebuchadnezzar II
- Important places
- Jerusalem; Atarot; Nof, Egypt; Megiddo; Babylon
- Important events
- Battle of Megiddo (609 B.C.); Siege of Jerusalem; Fall of Jerusalem 586 BC
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- 8 — Czech, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
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