Song of Bernadette. Black mass. Verfel F.

Franz Verfel - a classic of Austrian literature of the 20th century, Prague poet, writer and playwright, student of Gustav Mayric, a companion and friend of Max Brod, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Muzil, Martin Buber - was a star. He was considered the face of German -speaking expressionism and, together with Franz Kafka and Max Brod, was part of the Prague Circle - a group of writers and poets, who, before the start of the First World War, invented the unprecedented voice of new literature. Matra admired the poetry of Verfel; His plays were placed all over Europe. Verfel possessed a developed instinct to the tragic, terrible and funny, almost journalistic observation, romantic, sometimes mystical view of the world and a rare ability to catch the subtlest movements of the human soul. The Late Roman of Verfel “The Bernadetta Song”, penetrating and captivating by his reporter accuracy, the story of the French saint, which was the Virgin Mary in Lourd, became a bestseller in the United States and was filmed in 1943; In the short stories and stories of the shipyard, the high -voltage intensity is adjacent to sympathetic irony, and religious pathos - with the deep sadness of the man who survived one war, fled from another after half, never looked away and clearer in which the world he had to be born. Some novels and stories in this collection, including “Not the killer, but the murdered guilty”, “The death of a philistine” and “Pale blue female letter”, are published in Russian for the first time.