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The Collected Shorter Fiction of Joseph Roth
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Product Description
Joseph Roth has always enjoyed critical acclaim in the USA, but his novels were out of print for many years in the UK. In recent years a new generation of readers has discovered this modern master of the laconic, emblematic narrative - an artist responding to the madness of inter-war Europe with an unsentimental humanism. Roth's prose is quick, lucid, and ironic; his fictions read like realist fables. Beneath these polished surfaces darker currents - of violence, hatred, racism and personal loss - cannot be ignored. Granta here presents Roth's collected stories and novellas, in new translations by the poet Michael Hofmann. They include 'Fallermayr the Stationmaster' and 'The Bust of the Emperor', bitter comedies of the last days of the Hapsburgs; 'Strawberries', the story of a small town in Galicia, and many other astonishing shorter fiction.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1534346 in Books
- Published on: 2001-10-16
- Original language: German
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
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About the Author
Joseph Roth's (1894-1939) books include The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Right and Left, The Emperor's Tomb, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March. Michael Hofmann is a poet. His most recent collection is Approximately Nowhere. As a translator his work includes Kafka's The Man who Disappeared (Amerika). He has also translated Joseph Roth's The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Right and Left and The String of Pearls.
Customer Reviews
Beautiful alternative to modern fiction
Joseph Roth manages to set the scene, get you to know the characters, scene, time etc in the matter of a few pages without making it obvious. Stories written in this fashion keep you hooked from the first page and don't disappoint in their ending.
"Strawberries" is a fantastic example of one of the longer pieces in this collection (32 pages). A town almost forgotten by the rest of the world, with it's own set of rules accepted by all it's citizens, eccentrically intelligent or otherwise, all in all a beautifully written alternative to modern fiction.
