From Joseph Roth, an allegorical yet decidedly modern novelist, comes this story of postwar disillusion, the limits of faith, and "personal fate as governed by the blind, casual workings of a machine controlled by no one and for which no one is responsible" (The New York Times).
When Andreas Pum returns from World War I, he has lost a leg but gained a medal. But unlike his fellow sufferers, Pum maintains his unswerving faith in God, Government, and Authority. Ironically, after a dispute, Pum is imprisoned as a rebel, and all that he believed in is now thrown into upheaval....
From Joseph Roth, an allegorical yet decidedly modern novelist, comes this story of postwar disillusion, the limits of faith, and "personal fate as...
C]aptures and encapsulates Europe in those uncertain hours before the upheaval of a continent and the annihilation of a civilization."--Cynthia Ozick, author of Quarrel and Quandary " A] writer well worth adding to the short list of giants such as Thomas Mann, Elie Wiesel, and Primo Levi."--Hadassah Magazine, Sanford Pinsker
C]aptures and encapsulates Europe in those uncertain hours before the upheaval of a continent and the annihilation of a civilization."--Cynthia ...
Appearing in English for the first time, The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth includes seventeen novellas and stories that echo the intensity and achievement of his greatest novel, The Radetzky March. Spanning the entire range of Roth's brief life (1894-1939) and showcasing the breadth of his literary powers, this collection features many stories just recently discovered. Roth's novellas and short stories will rank with Chekhov's as among the greatest of modern literature.
Appearing in English for the first time, The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth includes seventeen novellas and stories that echo the intensity and achi...
At one time an underground hero in the world of journalism, with prose on a par with Tolstoy and Kafka, Joseph Roth now looms large in the pantheon of European literature. Indeed, the last five years have seen a major Roth revival culminating in "Report from a Parisian Paradise," a haunting epitaph by the greatest foreign correspondent of his age. An exile in Paris, Roth captured the essence of France in the 1920s and 1930s. From the port town of Marseille to the erotic hill country around Avignon, "Report from a Parisian Paradise" superbly translated by Michael Hofmann paints the...
At one time an underground hero in the world of journalism, with prose on a par with Tolstoy and Kafka, Joseph Roth now looms large in the pantheon...
In "The Spider's Web", his first novel, Roth paints a chillingly realistic picture of the conspiracies of the radical right that were to undermine the Weimar Republic and pave the way for Hitler and National Socialism.
In "The Spider's Web", his first novel, Roth paints a chillingly realistic picture of the conspiracies of the radical right that were to undermine the...
The story of a Great War veteran, Andreas Pum, who loses a leg and gains a medal. He marries, plays a barrel organ, and is happy. But when he is imprisoned after a fight, life seems unbearably altered. Then a chance encounter with an old comrade gives Pum a transfiguring experience of justice.
The story of a Great War veteran, Andreas Pum, who loses a leg and gains a medal. He marries, plays a barrel organ, and is happy. But when he is impri...
1923, drei Tage vor Hitlers Putschversuch in München erschienen, zeichnet 'Das Spinnennetz' das Porträt einer Gesellschaft von Mitläufern, die der Katastrophe entgegeneilt.
1923, drei Tage vor Hitlers Putschversuch in München erschienen, zeichnet 'Das Spinnennetz' das Porträt einer Gesellschaft von Mitläufern, die der ...
"Das Spinnennetz", 1923 in der Wiener "Arbeiter-Zeitung" erschienen, ist ein unheimlicher Roman: Sein Thema ist die Formation von Rechtsextremismus und Antisemitismus, deren Verbreitung Roth in den Zeitungsbeiträgen dieser Jahre mit stetig wachsender Beunruhigung kommentierte. Während er als Journalist diese Vorgänge von außen verfolgt, schildert er sie in seinem Roman aus der Perspektive eines 'Täters', der sich im Netz der Geheimbünde, Organisationen und Fememorde verstrickt. Der Text wird hier erstmals in der Fassung der Zeitung wiedergegeben. Ein genauer Kommentar beleuchtet die...
"Das Spinnennetz", 1923 in der Wiener "Arbeiter-Zeitung" erschienen, ist ein unheimlicher Roman: Sein Thema ist die Formation von Rechtsextremismus un...
"Es war einmal im Bezirk Zlotogrod ein Eichmeister, der hieß Anselm Eibenschütz. Seine Aufgabe bestand darin, die Maße und die Gewichte der Kaufleute im ganzen Bezirk zu prüfen." Der ehrliche Eibenschütz macht sich viele Feinde. Als er sich in die schöne Zigeunerin Euphemia verliebt, wird es - nicht nur bei den Gewichten - immer schwerer, zu erkennen, was richtig und was falsch ist.
"Es war einmal im Bezirk Zlotogrod ein Eichmeister, der hieß Anselm Eibenschütz. Seine Aufgabe bestand darin, die Maße und die Gewichte der Kaufleu...
