The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books
IT is a coincidence that two of the most distinguished novels of this year have been written by men in exile, men who have each gone back to the Scriptures for their source material. Joseph in Egypt and Hearken unto the Voice may have to be read covertly in Germany, but they will be applauded openly in those lands which are still democratic.
Franz Werfel, born in Prague in 1890, is of Jewish extraction. He is one of the many who have been driven from their homes in Vienna.