Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : Granta Books (Uk)
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Roth's prose is quick, lucid and ironic; his fictions read like realist fables. Granta here presents his stories and novellas in new translations by the poet Michael Hofman.
Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393043204
Appearing in English for the first time, "The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth" is a remarkable achievement, with17 novellas and stories that echo the intensity and achievement of his greatest novel, "The Radetzky March." These short works, each a stunning example of Roth's legendary explorations of character, reflect an enduring and tragic sensibility that stands alone in the annals of 20th century fiction.
Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393060640
The tumultuous life of the Austrian writer best known for "The Radetzky March" is described through letters that recall his father's and wife's mental illnesses, numerous mistresses, and travel to Paris.
Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393051674
"[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers." --Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1782275975
New translations of the six greatest short stories by Joseph Roth, collected in a beautiful edition Joseph Roth's sensibility--both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane--produced some of the most distinctive fiction of the twentieth century. This collection of his most essential stories, in exquisite new translations by Ruth Martin, showcases the astonishing range and power of his short stories and novellas. In prose of aching beauty and precision, Roth shows us isolated souls pursuing lost ideals and impossible desires. Forced to remove a bust of the fallen Austrian emperor from his house, an eccentric old count holds a funeral for it and intends to be buried in the same plot himself; a humble coral merchant, dissatisfied with his life and longing for the sea, chooses to adulterate his wares with false coral, with catastrophic results; young Fini, just entering the haze of early sexuality, falls into an unsatisfying relationship with an older musician. With the greatest craft and sensitivity, Roth unfolds the many fragilities of the human heart.
Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1782274901
A powerful collection written on the eve of the destruction of Europe by the Second World War, by the great Joseph Roth Having fled to Paris in January 1933, on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany, Joseph Roth wrote a series of articles in that 'hour before the end of the world', that he foresaw was coming and which would see the full horror of Hitler's barbarism, the Second World War and most crucially for Roth, the final irreversible destruction of a pan European consciousness. Incisive and ironic, the writing evokes Roth's bitterness, frustration and morbid despair at the coming annihilation of the free world while displaying his great nostalgia for the Hapsburg Empire into which he was born and his ingrained fear of nationalism in any form.
Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590208447
The author’s masterpiece, an epic saga of a family and an empire in decline, is “full of psychological penetration and tragic force” (The New Yorker). The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth’s classic novel of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, follows three generations of the privileged von Trotta family as Europe advances inexorably toward World War I. With a breadth and richness that draws comparison to Tolstoy, it encompasses the entire social fabric of Austro-Hungarian society. Shot through with dark humor and tragic irony, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such a universal story for our times. “A masterpiece . . . The totality of Joseph Roth’s work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction. No other contemporary writer, not excepting Thomas Mann, has come close to achieving the wholeness . . . that Lukács cites as our impossible aim.” —Nadine Gordimer
Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1847082297
In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic and political writings that influenced an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and the young Christopher Isherwood. Roth, like no other German writer of his time, ventured beyond Berlin's official veneer to the heart of the city, chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants - the Jewish immigrants, the criminals, the bathhouse denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the morgues. Warning early on of the threat posed by the Nazis, Roth evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy and debauched beauty, creating in the process an unforgettable portrait of a city.
Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1783781297
The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold Antiqua letters in which its banal name is spelled out shining across the roofs of the gently banked houses are in my eye metal flags, metal bannerets that instead of fluttering shine out their greeting. In the 1920s and 30s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, leading a peripatetic life living in hotels and writing about the towns through which he passed. Incisive, nostalgic, curious and sharply observed - and collected together here for the first time - his pieces paint a picture of a continent racked by change yet clinging to tradition. From the 'compulsive' exercise regime of the Albanian army, the rickety industry of the new oil capital of Galicia, and 'split and scalped' houses of Tirana forced into modernity, to the individual and idiosyncratic characters that Roth encounters in his hotel stays, these tender and quietly dazzling vignettes form a series of literary postcards written from a bygone world, creeping towards world war.
Author : JOSEPH. ROTH
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2022
Category :
ISBN : 9781783788491
