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Star of the Unborn
by
Franz Werfel
A fabulous journey through a world 100,000 years from our own, where mankind's deepest aspirations have been fuflfilled.
627 pages
Published
(first published 1946)
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Franz Werfel, the author of The Song of Bernadette, has created a fable to rival all others - an allegorical fantasy of a world beyond the imagination of most people. “Star of the Unborn” is a long novel of speculative fiction by the author of “Song of Bernadette.” Published in 1946, it’s set a hundred thousand years in the future and opens with the raising of the narrator, known as F.W., from the dead. It uncannily anticipates thorny questions about mankind’s troubled relationship with technolo...more
When the kidlet's teacher discovered I read science fiction, she gleefully pressed a much-read paperback copy of this into my hands and told me it was her favorite book ever in the entire world. Feeling a little pressure, here.
I made it 458 pages -- about halfway -- and then just could not bear another moment.
This isn't exactly science fiction as we know it, Jim; it's more of an allegory or satire like Gulliver's Travels. Unfortunately, unlike Gulliver's Travels, this book is bo-ring.
I made it 458 pages -- about halfway -- and then just could not bear another moment.
This isn't exactly science fiction as we know it, Jim; it's more of an allegory or satire like Gulliver's Travels. Unfortunately, unlike Gulliver's Travels, this book is bo-ring.
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A strange but intriguing novel about the very distant future.
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Star of the Unborn. by Franz. Werfel (1976)
Long,odd and very dated fantasy piece with enough mid-20th century literary/philosophical tropes to make it interesting...
An arduous but stunning piece of literature.
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Czech-born poet, playwright, and novelist, whose central themes were religious faith, heroism, and human brotherhood. Franz Werfel's best-known works include The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933), a classic historical novel that portrays Armenian resistance to the Turks, and The Song of Bernadette (1941). The latter book had its start when Werfel, a Jew escaping the Nazis, found solace in the pilgrim...more
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