THE RADETSKY MARCH is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages to bring to his story a completely individual manner which gives at the same time the detailed and intimate portrait of a life and the wider panorama of a failing dynasty. Not yet well known in English-speaking countries, Joseph Roth is one of the most distinguished Austrian writers of our century, worthy to be bracketed with Musil and Kraus.
Publisher: Everyman
ISBN: 9781857151978
Number of pages: 376
Weight: 475 g
Dimensions: 211 x 133 x 24 mm
We are so steeped, we moderns, in cynicism and in doubt, that when we find an author praising a vanished age and regretting its loss, we assume he is being satirical, or that he suffers from some grave personality... More
We are so steeped, we moderns, in cynicism and in doubt, that when we find an author praising a vanished age and regretting its loss, we assume he is being satirical, or that he suffers from some grave personality... More
The story of 3 generations of an Austro-Hungarian military family. One of those books where you know what's going to happen, but the amazing quality of the writing makes the jouyrney an absolute pleasure.
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