The Spider's Web and Zipper and His Father

Roth, Joseph --- transl. from German by John Hoare

ISBN 10: 0879513616 / ISBN 13: 9780879513610

Published by The Overlook Press, Woodstock, 1989, 1991

About this Item

Paperback, near fine, no traces of usage, First English Edition, 245 pp., OT: Das Spinnennetz, and Zipper und sein Vater; clean pages, no names, no markings, in stock, sofort lieferbar.

Seller Inventory # August2023SunT-9780879513610

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Spider's Web and Zipper and His Father
• Publisher: The Overlook Press, Woodstock, 1989
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879513616
• ISBN 13: 9780879513610
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • in English

About this title

Synopsis

Two novellas of rare energy and insight, The Spider's Web and Zipper and His Father are filled with Joseph Roth's surprising political foresight and compassionate sensitivity to the tremors of a world on the brink of collapse. The Spider's Web paints a chillingly realistic picture of the conspiracies of the radical right that were to undermine the Weimar Republic and pave the way for Hitler and National Socialism to take root among the disenchanted middle classes. Through the eyes of Theodor Lohse, a frustrated and disappointed veteran recently returned from the Great War, Roth shows the dark and powerful attraction of secret right-wing organizations to a man deprived of comradeship and military glory by the ennui of civilian life. Driven by anti-Semitism and an intense hatred of communism, Lohse assumes various disguises in an underground terrorist network, spreading the evil message of National Socialism through random acts of violence and intimidation. Zipper and his Father is a melancholy evocation of the seedy, unsuccessful lives of lowly clerks lounging in Viennese coffee houses and dreaming of what might have been. Roth charts the shared eccentricities and erratic progress of a father and son in the febrile world of German cinema in the late 1920s.

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.