The Radetzky March - Softcover

Roth, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879515589 ISBN 13: 9780879515584

Publisher: Overlook Books, 1995

Synopsis

The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-Hungarian Empire just before World War I. The author's greatest achievement, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such, a universal story for our times.

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About the Author

Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the eastern borders of the Hapsburg Empire. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. He died in Paris in 1939, leaving behind thirteen novels as well as many stories and essays.

From the Back Cover

"A masterpiece.... The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction. No other contemporary writer, not excepting Thomas Mann, has come so close to achieving the wholeness--lying atop a slippery pole we never stop trying to climb--that Lukács cites as our impossible aim." --Nadine Gordimer

The Radetzky March, first published in 1932, is Joseph Roth's greatest literary achievement, a novel of world literary rank. Spanning three generations of the Trotta family and set in the waning days of the Hapsburg Empire, the novel unfolds with marvelous subtlety to reveal its splendidly modern ironies. In this new translation, Joachim Neugroschel captures the uniquely Rothian tone of the original--profound and elegant seriousness meshed with a tender sense of irony. One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century and an essential novel for our time, The Radetzky March is still breathtaking and still brilliant.

Joseph Roth was born in 1894, in a small Galician town on the eastern border of the Hapsburg Empire. He served briefly in the Austro-Hungarian Army and later worked as a journalist in Vienna, Berlin and Frankfurt. In 1933, he moved to Paris, where, upset by events in Europe and by his personal problems, he drank excessively, dying in Paris in 1939 from pneumonia and heart failure brought on by the withdrawal symptoms during a delerium tremens spell. One of the central figures in the émigré intellectual opposition to the Nazis, Joseph Roth is the author of fifteen novels and novellas and a large body of journalism. He is, along with Robert Musil and Thomas Mann, among the greatest of the early twentieth century Central European writers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Overlook Books
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879515589
• ISBN 13: 9780879515584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352