Song of Bernadette. 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, entered the Prague Circle - a group of writers and poets, who, before the start of the First World War, invented an unheard of the 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, journalistic observation, a romantic, sometimes mystical look at reality and a rare ability to catch the subtlest movements of the human soul. His late novel “The Song of Bernadetta”, which became a bestseller in the United States and filmed in 1943, is penetrating and captivating the story of a French girl who was Maria Virgin in Lurda; The story of uncompromising honesty, love and delight before this world contrary to everything.