Joseph Roth

• May-1985
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"Job is perfect. . . . a novel as lyric poem." -- Joan AcocellaJob is the tale of Mendel Singer, a pious, destitute Russian Jew and children's Torah teacher whose faith is tested at every turn. His youngest son seems to be incurably disabled, one of...

• Sep-1987
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• Aug-1990
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Roth wrote this final novella shortly before his death in 1939. It is the story of the last weeks in the life of a Parisian alcoholic and convicted murderer. The book has been made into a film, which won the 1988 Palme D'Or at the Venice Film Festiva...

• Dec-1991
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Two novellas of rare energy and insight, The Spider's Web and Zipper and His Father are filled with Joseph Roth's surprising political foresight and compassionate sensitivity to the tremors of a world on the brink of collapse. The Spider's Web paints...

• Feb-1992
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• Nov-1998
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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 ...

• Nov-1999
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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 is respo...

• Jul-2000
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“An almost perfect novel”  -- Rolling StoneA soldier travels through Europe on a doomed mission to track down his fiancée in this masterful and vivid evocation of life between the warsFranz Tunda, an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, ...

• Dec-2000
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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...

• Feb-2002
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The Collected Stories, in its variety and force, is the essential introduction to the fiction of Joseph Roth.

• Oct-2002
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An intensely beautiful book about one of history’s bleakest periods The Emperor’s Tomb �" the last novel Joseph Roth wrote �" is a haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a magically evocative paean to the passi...

• Oct-2002
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This modern fable of the Russian Revolution from the author of The Radetzy March follows the tragic life of a peasant who seeks meaning in violence.   A Russian peasant, Nicholas Tarabas learns in his youth from a gypsy that he is destined to be...

• Dec-2002
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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 audien...

• Feb-2003
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“An absorbing, dark, beautifully written” novel on the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire “written with the melancholy wit and grace of Gogol” (New Statesman, The Times)This deeply moving, deeply philosophical story set in Ukraine tou...

• Jun-2003
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The renowned author of The Radetzky March examines the mind of a Russian Revolutionary and the limitations of ideology in this classic n ovel.Based on his own observations during an extended stay in Moscow in the winter of 1926, The Silent Prophet is...

• Jun-2003
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Relates the story of Theodor Lohse, a man driven by contempt for Jews and Communists, as he goes underground to spread the influence of Hitler, and depicts the relationship of a boy and his father in 1920s Germany...

• Nov-2003
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A POW meets other survivors of World War I in a Polish hotel in this acclaimed classic novel by the author of The Radetzky March.Still bearing the scars from gulag experiences, a freed POW traverses Russia to arrive at the Polish town of Lodz. In its...

• Nov-2003
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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 perceptiv...

• Mar-2004
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“[A] remarkably prescient novella prefiguring the collapse of morality and the rise of Nazism” by the celebrated Austrian author of The Emperor’s Tomb (Publishers Weekly).   With tragic foresight, Right and Left, first published in 1929, e...

• Dec-2004
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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....

• Feb-2010
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"Long out of print in English, this dizzying hybrid of novel, essay, and polemic has less to do with religion than with what Roth sees as the disintegrating moral fabric of the modern world   Written while Roth was in exile from Germany and his ...

• Jan-2011
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An Orthodox Jew encounters his biggest test of faith after moving from Tsarist Russia to New York City in this “pure, perfect” retelling of the Book of Job (Stefan Zweig) Job is the tale of Mendel Singer, a pious, destitute Eastern-European Jew ...

• Jul-2011
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Joseph Roth’s final novella, The Leviathan, concerns a shtetl’s finest coral merchant and how his dream of seeing the sea for the first time materializes at a terrible cost. In the small town of Progrody, Nissen Piczenik makes his living as the m...

• Jan-2012
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Now in paperback, Napoleon’s return to the throne in Paris, as imagined by the incomparable Joseph Roth 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 defe...

• Mar-2013
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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'...

• Oct-2015
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The first overview of all Joseph Roth’s journalism: traveling across a Europe in crisis, he declares,“I am a hotel citizen, a hotel patriot.” The Hotel Years gathers sixty-four feuilletons: on hotels; pains and pleasures; personalities; and the...

• Nov-2020
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New translations of the six greatest short stories by Joseph Roth, collected in a beautiful editionJoseph Roth's sensibility--both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane--produced some of the most distinctive fiction of the t...

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Joseph Roth: RadetzkymarschEdition Holzinger. TaschenbuchBerliner Ausgabe, 2015, 4. AuflageVollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Erstdruck: Berlin, Kiepenheuer, 1932. Herausgeber der Rei...