tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post1820646076594317389..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: What I've Been Reading RecentlyPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-61513294143680262392022-10-02T09:07:23.913+01:002022-10-02T09:07:23.913+01:00The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Czech writer Franz ...The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Czech writer Franz Werfel (Penguin). A Jewish refugee from Nazism, Werfel drew on that to tell the story of the Armenian genocide through the real-life experience of a village that arms and defends itself against the Turkish army and a depiction of the political movers great and small. I was stunned by the parallels Werfel wanted to illustrate with his tale, the universality, but what kept me hooked was the poetry of the language, which I have to attribute to a translation comparatively recently expanded by the American poet James Reidel. One of the greatest books I’ve ever read. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com