The theme of 'exile' runs like a red thread through Franz Werfel's works which he wrote between 1938 and 1945: Cella, or, The Survivors (1938), Embezzled Heaven (1939), the introduction to The Song of Bernadette (1941), Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944), and Star of the Unborn (1946). The way the theme is treated, is almost exclusively determined by Werfel's own situation as an exile in France
... [Show full abstract] and in the United States. The novellas The Priest's Tale of the Righted Cross (1938) and A Pale Blue Woman's Writing (1941), in addition, deal with the antisemitism of the First Austrian Republic and its violent outbreak immediately after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.
