Books by Joseph Roth (6)


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Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker by Joseph Roth DE

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
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his book, one of the most haunting things that Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the year the author died. Like Andreas, the hero of the story, Roth drank himself to death in Paris, but this is not an autobiographical confession. It is a secular miracle-tale, in which the vagrant Andreas, after living under bridges, has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of existence. The novella is extraordinarily compressed, dry-eyed and witty, despite its melancholic subject-matter.

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La cripta de los capuchinos by Joseph Roth ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
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El protagonista de “La Cripta de los Capuchinos”, heredero de una familia de orígenes humildes ennoblecida por Francisco José, describe su vida en la Viena deslumbrante en los albores de la Primera Guerra Mundial. A los últimos estertores del imperio de los Habsburgo siguen los días trágicos de la guerra y de una postguerra gris y violenta. Antes de que los nazis entren en Viena, el joven Trotta, símbolo de un mundo en declive, baja a la cripta a la que alude el título de la novela, el panteón imperial austríaco, donde confesará su fracaso. “La Cripta de los Capuchinos” (1938) es tanto la nove... continue

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La leyenda del santo bebedor by Joseph Roth ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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La leyenda del Santo Bebedor, fue publicada por primera vez en 1939, pocos meses después de la muerte de Roth, exiliado en París, y puede ser considerada, por muchos motivos, su testamento, la parábola transparente y misteriosa que encierra la cifra de su autor, hoy redescubierto como uno de los más extraordinarios narradores del siglo. El clochard Andreas Kartak, originario como Roth de las provincias orientales del Imperio austrohúngaro, encuentra una noche, bajo los puentes del Sena, un enigmático desconocido que le ofrece doscientos francos. El cl... continue

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The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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A continuation of the saga of the von Trotta family from The Radetzky March, it is both a powerful and moving look at a decaying society and its journey through the War and its devastating aftermath, and the story of the erosion of one man's desperate faith in the virtues of a simple life.

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The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
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'The Radetzky March is one of the most readable, poignant and superb novels in twentieth century German; it stands with the best of Thomas Mann, Alfred Doblin and Robert Musil' Harold Bloom

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The Radetzky March : Introduction by Alan Bance by Joseph Roth EN

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By one of the most distinguished Austrian writers of our century, a portrait of three generations set against the panoramic background of the declining Austro-Hungarian Empire. Translated by a three-time winner of the PEN Translation Prize.