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.
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@bertsbooks Joseph Roth. The Radetzky March (again.) Truman Capote. In Cold Blood
Sarah Wheeler is a travel author and biographer.
Interesting point in @PhilipHensher's fine review of the Joseph Roth Life: 'read this biography, and then The Radetzky March, to see just how great a book a frighteningly unpleasant person could produce.' Other candidates? Sybille Bedford and Don Otavio?
A pivotal voice in American intellectual life since 1945.
Joseph Roth's 1932 masterpiece, The Radetzky March, is a lean trilogy of ironic nostalgia for the triumphant, ramshackle Austria-Hungary of his youth. Read the full review of Endless Flight by @KeironPim ▸ https://t.co/B322maW9Ts #Literature #Biography #JosephRoth
"A masterpiece . . . The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragédie humaine
Achieved in the techniques of modern fiction."
--NADINE GORDIMER
"Epic . . . brilliantly achieved . . . the portrait of an empty age, an age of gold braid and glitter."
--THE NEW YORK TIMES
"It is hard to praise this novel sufficiently . . . [It] is exceptional for . . . the tolerance and pity and humorous magnanimity with which the author regards his characters."
--CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
With a new introduction by Alan Bance