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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

novel by Werfel

Also known as: “Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh”

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In Franz Werfel
…Tage des Musa Dagh (1933; The Forty Days of Musa Dagh), an epic novel in which Armenian villagers resist Turkish forces until rescued by the French.
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…event, as does Franz Werfel’s Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1934), which dramatizes the defense of an Armenian stronghold. More often it attempts to portray a broader view of a past society in which great events are reflected by their impact on the private lives of fictional individuals. Since the…
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