Joseph Roth (Hardcover)

Joseph Roth

ISBN 10: 0393060640 / ISBN 13: 9780393060645

Published by WW Norton & Co, New York, 2012

About this Item

Hardcover. Who would have thought that seventy-three years after Joseph Roths lonely death in Paris, new editions of his translations would be appearing regularly? Roth, a transcendent novelist who also produced some of the most breathtakingly lyrical journalism ever written, is now being discovered by a new generation. Nine years in the making, this life through letters provides us with our most extensive portrait of Roths calamitous lifehis fathers madness, his wifes schizophrenia, his parade of mistresses (each more exotic than the next), and his classic westward journey from a virtual Hapsburg shtetl to Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt, and finally Paris.Containing 457 newly translated letters, along with eloquent introductions that richly frame Roths life, this book brilliantly evokes the crumbling specters of the Weimar Republic and 1930s France. Displaying Roths ceaselessly inventive powers, it finally charts his descent into despair at a time when the word had died, [and] men bark like dogs. The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Rothwith Kafka, Mann, and Musilin the twentieth-century literary canon. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Joseph Roth (Hardcover)
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393060640
• ISBN 13: 9780393060645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Roth―with Kafka, Mann, and Musil―in the twentieth-century literary canon.

Who would have thought that seventy-three years after Joseph Roth’s lonely death in Paris, new editions of his translations would be appearing regularly? Roth, a transcendent novelist who also produced some of the most breathtakingly lyrical journalism ever written, is now being discovered by a new generation. Nine years in the making, this life through letters provides us with our most extensive portrait of Roth’s calamitous life―his father’s madness, his wife’s schizophrenia, his parade of mistresses (each more exotic than the next), and his classic westward journey from a virtual Hapsburg shtetl to Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt, and finally Paris.

Containing 457 newly translated letters, along with eloquent introductions that richly frame Roth’s life, this book brilliantly evokes the crumbling specters of the Weimar Republic and 1930s France. Displaying Roth’s ceaselessly inventive powers, it finally charts his descent into despair at a time when “the word had died, [and] men bark like dogs.”

About the Authors

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He published several books and articles before his untimely death at the age of 44. Roth’s writing has been admired by J. M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Elie Wiesel, and Nadine Gordimer, among many others.

The award-winning translator Michael Hofmann has also translated works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Gert Hofmann, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, and Joseph Roth for New Directions. His translation of Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2024.