Zwischen Glauben und Verzweiflung. Franz Werfel und Søren Kierkegaard
The Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel (1890 - 1945) was part of a group of writers and thinkers that were inspired by Søren Kierkegaard’s works. While some attention has been paid to Werfel’s religious thinking, there’s a lack of studies that treat his at the time highly successful literary work...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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De Gruyter
2024
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Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
Year: 2024, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 269-301 |
| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBB German language area KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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| Summary: | The Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel (1890 - 1945) was part of a group of writers and thinkers that were inspired by Søren Kierkegaard’s works. While some attention has been paid to Werfel’s religious thinking, there’s a lack of studies that treat his at the time highly successful literary works. After discussing the context in which Werfel’s reception took place, this paper analyzes three novels in which Werfel implicitly refers to Kierkegaardian concepts. At stake is the idea of becoming (or failing to become) a self and the ensuing types of despair or fear, concepts that also captivated Werfel’s literary contemporaries such as Max Brod and Franz Kafka. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9792 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/kierke-2024-0013 |