The Radetzky March

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JOSEPH ROTH The Radetzky March A NEW TRANSLATION BY JOACHIM NEUGROSCHEL WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NADINE GORDIMER PENGUIN Fiction ISBN 0-14-018853-3 'A masterpiece ... The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern Jiction. 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 IStrauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918. Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his ennoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an administration whose failure he can neither comprehend... Tovább

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PENGUIN TWENTIETH - CENTURY CLASSICS

JOSEPH ROTH The Radetzky March A NEW TRANSLATION BY JOACHIM NEUGROSCHEL WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NADINE GORDIMER PENGUIN Fiction ISBN 0-14-018853-3 'A masterpiece ... The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern Jiction. 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 IStrauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918. Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his ennoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an administration whose failure he can neither comprehend nor survive; the third for the family standards of conduct which he cannot attain but against which he is too enfeebled to rebel. Published when he was prominent in the émigré intellectual opposition to the Nazis, The Radetzky March helped to place Joseph Roth among the twentieth century's greatest German-speaking writers. The cover shows a detail from Kecruitment by Nagy Lazar from the Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest (photo: Bridgeman Art Library)


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