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Den østrigske forfatter Joseph Roths (1894-1939) roman Job fra 1930 handler om en fattig russiskjødisk familie, der kort før første verdenskrig udvandrer til USA. Ikke alt går glat, men fortællingen afsluttes med stumfilmsagtig tragikomik. Hovedpersonen M
'Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordinary, an entirely commonplace Jew...' So Roth begins his novel about the loss of faith and the experience of suffering. His modern Job
Mit Leib und Seele ist der feinfühlige Offizier Carl Joseph Trotta ein Kind Österreich-Ungarns: Der Großvater, der als Soldat dem damals noch jungen Franz Joseph I. das Leben rettete, ziert als "Held von Solferino" die Geschichtsbücher, der Vate
'One of the greatest novels ever written' Philippe Sands Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family. Set against the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hung
'One of the greatest writers of the first half of the tormented 20th century' - Simon Schama 'An almost perfect book' Rolling Stone At the close of the Great War, a captured Austrian soldier escapes Siberia and sets off in search of his fi
Mit diesem Essay gewährt Roth Einblick in die ostjüdische Kultur und das Leben in den neuen Heimatorten Eine liebevolle, oft auch ironische Zeichnung der ostjüdischen Kultur, vor allem aber auch des Elends, das so viele in die Welt hinaustrieb, und eine f
NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 'Sublime ... it inspires a kind of evangelical cult passion among its devotees' Simon Schama 'Roth is Austria's Chekhov' William Boyd Strauss's Radetzky March , signature tune of one of Europe&#
Every few decades a book is published that shapes Jewish consciousness. One thinks of Wiesel's Night or Levi's Survival in Auschwitz . But in 1927, years before these works were written, Joseph Roth (1894-1939) composed The Wandering Jews . In the
In January 1933, on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany, Joseph Roth fled to Paris. There, in what he called the 'hour before the end of the world', he wrote a series of articles. The end he foresaw would soon come to pass in the full horr
The legendary Austro-Hungarian novelist and essayist, Joseph Roth, was born in Ukraine in 1894 and died tragically in Paris in 1939. These letters span the breadth of Roth's life, from the schoolboy to the veteran of 44, marked by war, poverty, alcoho
A contemporary retelling of the Book of Job from the Bible. Job is the tale of Mendel Singer, a pious, destitute Eastern-European Jew and children's Torah teacher whose faith is tested at every turn. His youngest son seems to be incurably disabled, on
THE RADETSKY MARCH is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages to bring to his story a completely individual manner which gives at the
The definitive saga of the Habsburg Empire--named one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. This is a high-quality edition featuring an introduction from Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer and translated by the acclaimed Joachim Neugroschel, who was
Joseph Roth fortæller med "Radetzkymarch" historien om en slovensk adelsfamilies storhed og fald, indrammet af skildringen af det østrig-ungarske kejserdømmes sidste dage. Med Radetzkymarchens fejende trommehvirvler begynder og slutter denne sto
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 (18
Mizzi Schinagl will ein bißchen Liebe, kann sie aber weder von einem Mann noch vom eigenen Sohn bekommen. Der ambivalente Intrigant Taittinger zahlt am Ende einen hohen Preis, sogar einen höheren als die eindeutigen Intriganten Josephine Matzner und Franz