The Armenian Genocide Featured in Works of Fiction

[the Robot Vegetable]

Ocool! I've been flirting with this book for a few years.  It sat
in the sun at the local store, so I looked at it and thought about
finding a less yellowed copy, but...

New impetus!


On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Ya Sam wrote:

> "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
> 
>      Nearly 70 years after it appeared in English, it is easy to take for 
> granted Franz Werfel’s masterpiece.  Filled with vivid characters and 
> unforgettable scenes, and executed with a Tolstoyan flair on a huge canvas, 
> The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is still unquestionably the most famous novel 
> written about Armenians, and one of the best as well and still in print 
> after almost 70 years.
> 
>      A best-seller in the 1930s and widely read down to this day, Werfel’s 
> novel has probably singlehandedly informed more people about the Armenian 
> Genocide than any other source.  No less a figure than Vahakn Dadrian has 
> said that the novel inspired him to do research on the Armenian Genocide.
> 
>      Readers coming to The Forty Days for the first time may be surprised at 
> how well the book has aged.  It is as fresh and as powerful now as it was in 
> the 1930s, and no less relevant.  New generations will continue to find in 
> the book what its first readers found: an extraordinary story of great power 
> written with style and grace. [T195p, $14.95 ($12.95)] "
> 
> http://www.commercemarketplace.com/home/naasr/april2002booknews.htm
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