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Joseph Roth: a Life in Letters

✍ Scribed by Hofmann, Michael;Roth, Joseph

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2012
Tongue
en-US
Weight
804 KB
Edition
First edition
Category
Fiction
City
Austria.
ISBN
0393060640

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✦ Synopsis

The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Roth--with Kafka, Mann, and Musil--in the twentieth-century literary canon.

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 journalism ever written, is now being discovered by a new generation. Nine years in the making, this life through letters provides us with our most extensive portrait of Roth's calamitous life--his father's madness, his wife's schizophrenia, his parade of mistresses (each more exotic than the next), and his classic westward journey from a virtual Hapsburg shtetl to Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt, and finally Paris.

Containing 457 newly translated letters, along with eloquent introductions that richly frame Roth's life, this book brilliantly evokes the crumbling specters of the...

✦ Subjects

Austrian authors -- Biography

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