Forty Days of Musa Dagh

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The exciting modern classic about
courage, love and survival -- and a man who
helped save his people from extermination.





THE FORTY DAYS OF
Musa Dagh

* * *

Franz Werfel


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some long forgotten and suddenly
remembered experience in the story
of all who once lived on the earth
and somehow live yet. The novel
is written with the ease which
gives writing and life inevita-
bility. Here, at last, is a con-
temporary novel full of the breath,
the flesh and blood and bone and
spirit, of life."
---WILLIAM SAROYAN



The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
was originally published
by The Viking Press, Inc.





The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

Translated from the German

by Geoffrey Dunlop





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THE FORTY DAYS OF
Musa Dagh

Franz Werfel


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Edition

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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

Viking Press edition published November, 1934
GIANT CARDINAL edition published January, 1962

1st printing .................. November, 1961




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Note

This book was conceived in March of 1929, in the course of
a stay in Damascus. The miserable sight of some maimed and
famished-looking refugee children, working in a carpet fac-
tory, gave me the final impulse to snatch from the Hades of
all that was, this incomprehensible destiny of the Armenian
nation. The writing of the book followed between July, 1932,
and March, 1933. Meanwhile, in November, on a lecture tour
through German cities, the author selected Chapter 5 of Book
One for public readings. It was read in its present form, based
on the historic records of a conversation between Enver
Pasha and Pastor Johannes Lepsius.

Breitenstein
Spring, 1933









 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

 

 

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BOOK ONE: COMING EVENTS

 

 

1. TESKERČ 3

 

2. KONAK -- HAMAM -- SELAMLIK 18

 

3. THE NOTABLES OF YOGHONOLUK 34

 

4. THE FIRST INCIDENT 54

 

5. INTERLUDE OF THE GODS 101

 

6. THE GREAT ASSEMBLY 125

 

7. THE FUNERAL OF THE BELLS 194

 

 

 

BOOK TWO: THE STRUGGLE OF THE WEAK

 

 

1. LIFE ON THE MOUNTAIN 245

 

2. THE EXPLOITS OF THE BOYS 280

 

3. THE PROCESSION OF FIRE 327

 

4. SATO'S WAYS 400

 

 

 

BOOK THREE: DISASTER, RESCUE, THE END

 

 

1. INTERLUDE OF THE GODS 439

 

2. STEPHAN SETS OUT AND RETURNS 469

 

3. PAIN 507

 

4. DECLINE AND TEMPTATION 527

 

5.