The Legend of the Holy Drinker - Softcover

Joseph Roth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862074712 ISBN 13: 9781862074712

Publisher: Granta Books, 2001

Synopsis

This book, one of the most haunting things that Joseph Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the same 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.

About this title

About the Author

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austrian Empire. He wrote thirteen novels, including The Radetzky March and The String of Pearts.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

Edition details

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1862074712
• ISBN 13: 9781862074712
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100