Song of Bernadette. Black mass

Franz Verfel is a classic of Austrian literature of the 20th century, Prague poet, writer and playwright, student of Gustav Mayric, a comrade -in -arms 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 an unprecedented voice of new literature. Matra admired the poetry of Verfel, his plays were set throughout 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 “Bernadette"s Song”, penetrating and captivating by his reporting accuracy, the story of the French saint, which was the Virgin Mary in Lourda, became a bestseller in the United States and was filmed in 1943, in the novels and stories of the shipyard the high -voltage glow is adjacent to sympathetic irony, and religious Paphos - with the deep sadness of the man who survived one war, fled half the world later, never looked away and clear more clear in which world he had to be born. Some novels and stories in this collection, including “not the killer, but the murdered is to blame,” “The death of a tradesman” and “Pale blue female letter” are published in Russian for the first time