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In 19th Century Austria, a peasant is ennobled for saving the emperor's life. His son further elevates the family's name by becoming a civil servant, but the grandson brings it back to square one with gambling and debauchery. A new translation of a classic.
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Translated from German, a novel portraying the post-WW1 decline of Viennese society from a "twentieth-century master of the quixotic and melancholy." (Publishers Weekly)
The Emperor's Tomb – the last novel Joseph Roth wrote – is a haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Running from 1913 to 1938, from the eve of one world war to the eve of the next, the novel continues the saga of the von Trotta family from The...
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Based on his own observations during an extended stay in Moscow in the winter of 1926, The Silent Prophet is Roth's vivid attempt to explain the Russian Revolution and its betrayal by exposing the personal motivations of its leaders. The illegitimate and rootless Friedrich Kargan-the Trotsky figure-goes compulsorily but willingly into exile in Siberia after openly defying the coldly amoral Savelli-the novel's Stalin figure. Written at the height of...
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This collection showcases the renowned author's "genius for metaphor, his compassionate irony, and his historical and psychological insight" (The Wall Street Journal).
Austrian author Joseph Roth was one of Europe's most powerful and perceptive literary voices during the turbulent period between WWI and WWII. This collection presents three of his most enduring works of fiction. "The Legend of the Holy Drinker" tells the story of a dissolute vagrant...
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Das Leben beschert dem Tora-Lehrer Mendel Singer in seinem Schtetl harte Schicksalsschläge. Auch nachdem er mit seiner Familie nach New York emigriert ist, begleiten ihn unerträgliches Leid und Verlust. Mendel verliert jede Hoffnung und seinen Glauben an Gott. Nur ein Wunder kann ihm noch helfen.
"Hiob", veröffentlicht im Jahr 1930, war Joseph Roths erster durchschlagender Erfolg als Autor – und bildet zusammen mit dem ein Jahr später erschienenen...
7) Rebellion
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"Andreas Pum, having lost his leg in the war, is rewarded with a permit to support himself by playing a barrel organ in the streets. At first the simple-minded veteran is entirely satisfied with his lot, and he even finds a widow to marry. But then a qurrel on a tram turns Andreas's life onto a rapid downward trajectory. As he loses first his beggar's permit, then his new wife, and even his freedom, he is finally provoked into rejecting his blind...
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Vienna of the late nineteenth century, with its contrasting images of pomp and profound melancholy, provides the backdrop for Joseph Roth's final novel, which he completed in exile, a few years before his tragic death in 1939. The Tale of the 1002nd Night is a brilliant, allegorical tale of seduction and personal and societal ruin, set amidst exquisite, wistful descriptions of a waning aristocratic age, and provides an essential link to our understanding...
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From the celebrated author of The Radetzky March comes the tragic story of a WWI officer caught in the tumult of a world on the verge of modernity.
As an Austro-Hungarian officer on the Eastern Front of World War I, Franz Tunda was captured by the Russians and sent to Siberia. Dreaming of a return to his life in Vienna, he escapes from prison-only to get caught up in the Russian Revolution, fall in love, and fight for the Bolshevik cause.
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10) Perlefter
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Now available for the first time in English, this important addition to the Roth canon is rich in irony and exemplary of Roth's keen powers of social and political observation. A novel fragment that was discovered among Joseph Roth's papers decades after his death, this book chronicles the life and times of Alexander Perlefter, the well-to-do Austrian urbanite with whom his relative, a small-town narrator, Naphthali Kroj, has come to live after becoming...
11) Judíos errantes
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En este ensayo, que se ha convertido en referencia obligada, Joseph Roth perfila el dibujo íntimo, no siempre exento de ironía, de los judíos del Este de Europa, un pueblo que a la sazón se convirtió, a través de sus dolorosas migraciones, en uno de los fermentos constitutivos de lo que hoy llamamos Occidente. Sobre este extraordinario libro, entre recuerdos de ciudades y fiestas, de rabinos milagrosos y casas de oración, entre imágenes del...
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"Cada página, cada línea, es como la estrofa de un poema, cincelado con el más preciso dominio del ritmo y de la melodía".
Stefan Zweig
De las afueras de una Viena de principios del siglo XX a las colinas de Hollywood, en Zipper y su padre (1928), novela que el autor presentó como una "crónica", se dibujan las frustradas ambiciones de toda una generación que, durante una época convulsa en todos los ámbitos, no hizo más que añorar lo que...
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El protagonista de 'La Cripta de los Capuchinos', heredero de una familia de origen humilde ennoblecida por Francisco José, describe su vida en la Viena deslumbrante de los albores de la Primera Guerra Mundial. A los últimos estertores del imperio de los Habsburgo siguen los días trágicos de la guerra y de una posguerra gris y violenta. Antes de que los nazis entren en Viena, el joven Trotta, símbolo de un mundo en declive, baja a la cripta a...
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Joseph Roth (1894 - 1939) fue un periodista y novelista nacido en Brody, una ciudad que hoy pertenece a Ucrania. Roth es conocido principalmente por su obra maestra: "La Marcha de Radetzky", publicada en 1932. Para muchos críticos literarios, "La Marcha de Radetzky" es una de las mejores novelas históricas del siglo XX. Abordando el Imperio Habsburgo en los últimos estertores de su grandeza y en la inestabilidad de su política, el texto se inspira...
15) La rebelión
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Andreas Pum, ex combatiente de guerra a quien el gobierno ha otorgado una condecoración y una licencia para tocar el organillo, recorre con su instrumento las calles de Viena. A pesar de su mala fortuna y su invalidez, está convencido de que el mundo se encuentra regido por un orden moral. Sin embargo, un pequeño incidente en el tranvía lo llevará a la cárcel, lo que hará que su visión del mundo se vea inevitablemente trastocada. Encerrado,...
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"Como todos los austríacos de aquella época, Morstin amaba lo permanente dentro de la constante transformación, lo usual dentro del cambio y lo conocido dentro de lo inusual. De este modo, lo extraño se le hacía familiar sin perder su color; y de este modo, la patria poseía la eterna magia del extranjero". Escrito en 1935, este breve relato se ocupa de uno de los grandes temas de Joseph Roth: el derrumbe del imperio austro-húngaro tras la Primera...
17) Fresas
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Joseph Roth concibió 'Fresas' como una pieza literaria sobre su infancia, una suerte de recreación de Brody, la ciudad limítrofe en la que se crió, situada entre el Imperio austrohúngaro y la Rusia zarista. La ciudad del relato está poblada por un elenco de personajes que marcaron el resto de su obra-el judío acaudalado que visita las tumbas de sus ancestros, el padre borrachín y ausente, los astutos traficantes de documentación falsa y los...
18) Right and Left
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With tragic foresight, Right and Left, first published in 1929, evokes the nightlife, corruption, political unrest, and economic tyranny of Berlin in the twenties, the same territory covered in Roth's trenchant reportage.
After serving in World War I, Paul Bernheim returns to Berlin to find himself heir to his recently deceased father's banking empire. Troubled by skyrocketing inflation and his brother's infatuation with the brownshirts, Bernheim...
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An exiled Russian spy shares his dramatic life story from a Paris restaurant in this novel by the author of The Radetzky March.
In a Russian restaurant on Paris’s Left Bank, Russian exile Golubchik alternately fascinates and horrifies a rapt audience with a wild story of collaboration, deception, and murder in the days leading up to the Russian Revolution.
Praise for Confession of a Murderer
“Worthy to sit beside Conrad’s and Dostoevsky’s...