Joseph Roth - Böcker

Den försigkomne och äregirige Paul Bernheim växer upp i en bankirfamilj i en medelstor tysk stad. Efter att ha gått ut skolan med högsta betyg och studerat i Oxford rycker han in som kavallerist vid första världskrigets utbrott. Kriget blir dock i...

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Denösterrikiskeförfattarenoch journalisten Joseph Roth (18941939) framstår alltmer som en av det förra århundradets verkligt stora berättare. I de fyra romanerna i denna volym Spindelnätet, Den stumme profeten, Den falska vikten och Kapucinerkrypt...

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Johann Strauss Radetzky-Marsch anger ton och titel för denna storslagna släktkrönika som skildrar tre generationer av familjen Trotta under dubbelmonarkins nedgång och fall i Österrike-Ungern. Handlingen inleds år 1859 med slaget vid Solferino, dä...

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Joseph Roths klassiska essä Judar på vandring publicerades 1927 i förlagsserien Berättelser ur verkligheten. Verkligheten är den östeuropeiska judendomen de kringvandrande handlarna, fromheten, festerna, misären, drömmarna, de öden som väntade de ...

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Den österrikiske författaren och journalisten Joseph Roth (1894-1939) var jude och härstammade från Galizien, en provins i den habsburgska dubbelmonarkin på Karpaternas nordsluttning. När nazisterna började tända bokbål gick han i exil och levde i...

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Bei Ausbruch des Krieges bricht Paul Bernheim seine Studien in Oxford ab. Er darf bei den Dragonern reiten, wird aber als Verpflegungsoffizier hinter die Front kommandiert. Tief enttauscht wandelt er sich zum erbitterten Kriegsgegner. Im dritten K...

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Joseph Roth [1894-1939] var en österrikisk författare och journalist. Han debuterade 1923 med Das Spinnennetz , som ursprungligen publicerades som följetong i tidningen Arbeiter-Zeitung . I sitt författarskap utforskade Roth den centraleuropeiska ...

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Ein epischer Roman über Glanz und Verfall der Habsburger Monarchie Helden von Solferino, bis zum Enkel Carl Joseph von Trotta, der den Niedergang Österreich-Ungarns miterlebt und gleichsam selbst nachvollzieht. Roth schuf ein behutsames Porträt ...

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The incomparable Joseph Roth imagines Emperor Napoleon's last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is to...

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Den förre detta spionen Golubchik ("Lilla duvan") har återvänt från Ryssland till mellankrigstidens Paris. Under en natt med landsmän och snaps bekänner han sina förräderier och vidrigheter, en livsberättelse som verkar ledas av djävulen...

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'One of the greatest European novelists of the century' Sunday Times Andreas is an alcoholic and a vagrant who lives under a bridge. Downtrodden, submerged at the bottom of society, he lives a fortuitous life - dictated by happenstance a...

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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 on...

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NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Strauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian colla...

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'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one' At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschtz leaves his beloved Austro-Hungarian army and takes up a civilian post, as Inspector of...

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'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one'At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschtz leaves his beloved Austro-Hungarian army and takes up a civilian post, as Inspector of Weights and Mea...

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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 ...

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The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth.

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The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth. This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselli...

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Who would have thought that seventy-three years after Joseph Roth s lonely death in Paris, new editions of his translations would be appearing regularly? Roth, a transcendent novelist who also produced some of the most breathtakingly lyrical journ...

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The first English-language edition of a history first written in 1927 by a correspondent in Weimar Berlin examines the concept of Jewish identity, the schism between Eastern and Western Jews, and the potential horrors of Nazism. 12,000 first print...

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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...

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The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for "What I Saw," a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, "What I Saw" introduces a new generation to...

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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 &...

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'This is not perhaps the real Napoleon, but it's certainly a remarkable creation that leaps off the page.' - Jack Kerridge, The Sunday Telegraph In The Hundred Days, Joseph Roth provides a poignant look at Napoleon's seemingly triumphant return to...

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While the rest of Joseph Roth's oeuvre has been made available to the English-speaking world in recent years, this new translation by Richard Panchyk - a distant relative of Roth - will redress the historical absence of such a key, neglected work ...

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Now available for the first time in English, Perlefter: The Story of a Bourgeois is a novel fragment that was discovered among Joseph Roth's papers decades after his death. The book chronicles the life and times of Alexander Perlefter, the well-to...

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The Hotel Years gathers sixty-four feuilletons: on hotels; pains and pleasures; personalities; and the deteriorating international situation of the 1930s. Never before translated into English, these pieces begin in Vienna just at the end of the Fi...

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Joseph Roth paints a vivid portrait of Emperor Napoleon's last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is t...

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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...

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