Joseph Roth

By Joseph RothTranslated by David Le Vay and Beatrice Musgrave. "One of the greatest writers of the first half of the tormented 20th century" —Simon Schama "A master of German prose… Roth understood the subtler acts of violence that war enacts upon the mind" —Spectator At the close of the Great War, a captured Austrian soldier escapes Siberia and sets off in search of his fiancée, her photograph sewn into the lining of his coat. But the old order has vanished, and he is swept along on the current of revolution: first surrendering to his love for a Red Army beauty, then drifting phantom-like through Europe’s cities. Here, Joseph Roth tells one of his most personal stories—that of a man cast adrift in a changed world. Paperback176 pagesPushkin Press, 20245.1 x 0.51 x 7.76 inches ISBN 9781805331216Literature

Flight Without End

By Michael Hofmann"Joseph Roth is one of the great writers of German of this century."—The Times [London]The Collected Stories, in its variety and force, is the essential introduction to the fiction of Joseph Roth.Appearing in English for the first time, The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth includes seventeen novellas and stories that echo the intensity and achievement of his greatest novel, The Radetzky March. Spanning the entire range of Roth's brief life (1894-1939) and showcasing the breadth of his literary powers, this collection features many stories just recently discovered. Roth's novellas and short stories will rank with Chekhov's as among the greatest of modern literature.Paperback282 pagesW. W. Norton & Company, 20035.5 x 0.7 x 8.2 inchesISBN 9780393323795 Literature

Collected Stories of Joseph Roth

By Joseph Roth Introduction by Alan BanceTranslated by Joachim Neugroschel“Epic . . . brilliantly achieved . . . the portrait of an empty age, an age of gold braid and glitter.”—The New York Times“One of the most readable, poignant, and superb novels in twentieth-century German: it stands with the best of Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, and Robert Musil. Roth was a cultural monument of Galician Jewry: ironic, compassionate, perfectly pitched to his catastrophic era.”—Harold Bloom By one of the most distinguished Austrian writers of our century, a portrait of three generations set against the panoramic background of the declining Austro-Hungarian Empire. Translated by a three-time winner of the PEN Translation Prize. Also available in German. Hardcover 376 pagesEveryman's Library, 1996 Originally published in 19325 x 8 inches ISBN 9780679451006Historical Fiction

The Radetzky March

By Joseph RothTranslated by Ruth Martin Joseph Roth’s sensibility-both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane-produced some of the most distinctive fiction of the twentieth century. This collection of his most essential stories, in exquisite new translations by Ruth Martin, showcases the astonishing range and power of his short stories and novellas.In prose of aching beauty and precision, Roth shows us isolated souls pursuing lost ideals and impossible desires. Forced to remove a bust of the fallen Austrian emperor from his house, an eccentric old count holds a funeral for it and intends to be buried in the same plot himself; a humble coral merchant, dissatisfied with his life and longing for the sea, chooses to adulterate his wares with false coral, with catastrophic results; young Fini, just entering the haze of early sexuality, falls into an unsatisfying relationship with an older musician. With the greatest craft and sensitivity, Roth unfolds the many fragilities of the human heart.Paperback224 pagesPushkin Collection, 20204.7 x 6.5 x 0.7 inchesISBN 9781782275978Short Stories

The Coral Merchant: Essential Stories

By Alys X. George “A sweeping survey of the primacy of the body in the Vienna modern, The Naked Truth demands a reorientation of our assumptions. This book will make a difference.” ―Scott Spector, University of Michigan“The Naked Truth offers a brilliant challenge to popular myths about fin-de-siècle Vienna. In its cross-disciplinary focus on the dissected, gendered, classed, and moving body in Viennese culture, it reads Gustav Klimt’s famous icon Nuda Veritas as a purloined image: always in plain sight but consistently overlooked. By including non-canonical women and expanding the frame beyond the political divide of 1918, George gives us a supplemental and alternative genealogy of Viennese modernism.” ―Andreas Huyssen, Columbia UniversityViennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-siècle fascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a rich cultural history of the body. The Naked Truth, an interdisciplinary tour de force, addresses this lacuna, fundamentally recasting the visual, literary, and performative cultures of Viennese modernism through an innovative focus on the corporeal. Alys X. George explores the modernist focus on the flesh by turning our attention to the second Vienna medical school, which revolutionized the field of anatomy in the 1800s. As she traces the results of this materialist influence across a broad range of cultural forms—exhibitions, literature, portraiture, dance, film, and more—George brings into dialogue a diverse group of historical protagonists, from canonical figures such as Egon Schiele, Arthur Schnitzler, Joseph Roth, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal to long-overlooked ones, including author and doctor Marie Pappenheim, journalist Else Feldmann, and dancers Grete Wiesenthal, Gertrud Bodenwieser, and Hilde Holger. She deftly blends analyses of popular and “high” culture, laying to rest the notion that Viennese modernism was an exclusively male movement. The Naked Truth uncovers the complex interplay of the physical and the aesthetic that shaped modernism and offers a striking new interpretation of this fascinating moment in the history of the West.Hardcover 328 pages | 43 halftonesUniversity of Chicago, 20206 x 9 x 1.2 inches ISBN 9780226669984Art History, Viennese History, Modernism

The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body

By Joseph RothTranslated by Michael Hofmann At one time an underground hero in the world of journalism, with prose on a par with Tolstoy and Kafka, Joseph Roth now looms large in the pantheon of European literature. Indeed, the last five years have seen a major Roth revival culminating in Report from a Parisian Paradise, a haunting epitaph by the greatest foreign correspondent of his age. An exile in Paris, Roth captured the essence of France in the 1920s and 1930s. From the port town of Marseille to the erotic hill country around Avignon. Report from a Parisian Paradise―superbly translated by Michael Hofmann―paints the sepia-tinted landscapes, enchanting people, and ruthless desperation of a country hurtling toward dissolution. Roth's book is not only a paean to a European order that could no longer hold but also a miraculous and revelatory work of transcendent philosophical clarity. Paperback303 pagesW.W. Norton and Company, 20055.5 x 0.8 x 8.2 inchesISBN 9780393327168Journalism, History

Report from a Parisian Paradise

By Volker WeidermannTranslated from German by Carol Brown Janeway “Intimate . . . Weidermann gives us a glimpse of what was, to many of these writers, a brief but rare home.”—Claire Hazelton, The Guardian“Potent and melancholy . . . Weidermann has combed letters, books, diaries, and reminiscences and used them to tell his sad tale as if it were a novel."—Michael Prodger, The Times, London“Dazzling. . . Graceful. For such a slim book to convey with such poignancy the extinction of a generation of ‘Great Europeans’ is a triumph.”—The Sunday Telegraph“Beautifully translated by Carol Brown Janeway . . . a short but vital calm-before-the-storm history, one that shines a valuable light on two of the 20th century’s finest writers . . . rich in insight and empathy. This is a sparkling gem.”—Malcolm Forbes, Minneapolis Star-Tribune It’s the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his house in Austria—searched by the police two years earlier—no longer feels like home. He’s been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town that is a paradise of promenades, parasols, and old friends. So he journeys there with his lover, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with fellow writer and semi-estranged close friend Joseph Roth, who is himself about to fall in love. For a moment, they create a fragile haven. But as Europe begins to crumble around them, the writers find themselves trapped on vacation, in exile, watching the world burn. In Ostend, Volker Weidermann lyrically recounts “the summer before the dark,” when a coterie of artists, intellectuals, drunks, revolutionaries, and madmen found themselves in limbo while Europe teetered on the edge of fascism and total war. Ostend is the true story of two of the twentieth century’s great writers, written with a novelist’s eye for pacing, chronology, and language—a dazzling work of historical nonfiction. Hardcover164 pagesPantheon, 2016 5.4 x 0.8 x 7.8 inchesISBN 9781101870266Literature, Biography, European History

Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

By Joseph RothTranslated from the German by Richard Panchyk “An achingly beautiful fictional account of the rise and fall of the Emperor Napoleon.”—Abby Margulies, Words Without Borders “A novel of great sensitivity and resonance. The Hundred Days is a meditation on the nature of greatness and love’s dogged loyalty, interwoven with the well-balanced irony that is Roth’s trademark. It’s a sad little gem.”—Boston ReviewJoseph Roth paints a vivid portrait of Emperor Napoleon's last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and that of the lowly, devoted palace laundress Angelica—an unlucky creature who deeply loves him. In The Hundred Days, Roth refracts the deep sorrow of their intertwined fates.Roth’s signature lyrical elegance and haunting atmospheric details sing in The Hundred Days. “There may be,” as James Wood has stated, “no modern writer more able to combine the novelistic and the poetic, to blend lusty, undamaged realism with sparkling powers of metaphor and simile.” Paperback215 pagesNew Directions, 2016Originally Published in 19355.1 x 0.7 x 7.7 inchesISBN 9780811225113Historical Fiction, Biographical Fiction

The Hundred Days

By Joseph Roth Translated by Michael Hofmann “Rebellion is reminiscent of Chekhov in its uncluttered, melancholy simplicity, while its sense of the larger, crushing incomprehensibility of things echoes Roth's older contemporary, Frank Kafka.”—Richard Bernstein, The New York Times “Roth's fictional world is one of terrifying uncertainty and instability, eerily mirroring his own [life]. His is considered by many to be one of the most important Jewish voices in German literature written between the two wars.”—The Forward “Rebellion puts the last piece of the Roth puzzle in place, leaving readers the gratifying task of exploring the manifold dimensions of this marvelous writer.”—The Boston Globe From Joseph Roth, an allegorical yet decidedly modern novelist, comes this story of postwar disillusion, the limits of faith, and "personal fate as governed by the blind, casual workings of a machine controlled by no one and for which no one is responsible" (The New York Times). When Andreas Pum returns from World War I, he has lost a leg but gained a medal. But unlike his fellow sufferers, Pum maintains his unswerving faith in God, Government, and Authority. Ironically, after a dispute, Pum is imprisoned as a rebel, and all that he believed in is now thrown into upheaval. Moving along at a breakneck clip, Rebellion captures the cynicism and upheavals of a postwar society. Its jazz-like cadences mix with social commentary to create a wise parable about justice and society. Paperback160 pagesPicador, 2000Originally Published in 19245.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inchesISBN 9780312263836 Fiction, Social Commentary

Rebellion

By Joseph RothTranslated by Michael Hofmann “Hofmann... makes a worthy Virgil through the inferno on display in these pages... Part of the pleasure of reading Joseph Roth—the novels, stories, journalism, letters all—lies in his synthesis of an easily acquired street sapience with a hard-won erudition. He has a 19th-century aesthetic molested by 20th-century crimes, a dignified formalism perverted by an absurdist undertow. Modernity for Roth is a hideous prank played on us by the angel of history."—William Giraldi, Commentary Magazine “Reading Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters is like sitting across a café table from Roth himself... No standard biography of Roth exists in English, but this collection of his letters, superbly translated and judiciously edited by long-time Roth advocate Michael Hofmann, provides a more intimate portrait than any biography could.”—Roger Boylan, Boston ReviewThe 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.”Hardcover512 pages W. W. Norton & Company; 1st Edition edition, 20126.7 x 1.8 x 9.6 inchesISBN 9780393060645Biography, Letters

Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

Von Joseph RothIn der Schlacht bei Solferino im Jahre 1859 rettet der slowenische Infantrieleutnant Joseph Trotta dem österreichischen Kaiser Franz Joseph I. das Leben. Er wird dafür geadelt und mit Orden ausgezeichnet und verläßt unwiderruflich den Weg seiner bäuerlichen Vorfahren. So beginnt die Geschichte der Familie von Trotta in einer Zeit, in der die Herrschaft der Habsburger noch einmal eine glorreiche Blüte erlebt. Im Aufstieg und Verfall einer Familie spiegeln sich die letzten Jahrzehnte der Donaumonarchie. 'Radetzkymarsch' gilt als das Hauptwerks des großen Epikers Joseph Roth. Also available in English. Paperback404 pages Text in GermanDeutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1998Originally published in 19324.7 x 1.1 x 7.5 inchesISBN 9783423124775Fiction

Radetzkymarsch [German]

By Joseph RothTranslated by Joachim NeugroschelJoseph 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. Also available in German. Paperback352 pagesOverlook TP, 2002Originally Published in 19325.4 x 0.8 x 8 inchesISBN 9781585673261 Fiction

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Flight Without End

Collected Stories of Joseph Roth

The Radetzky March

The Coral Merchant: Essential Stories

The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body

Report from a Parisian Paradise

Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

The Hundred Days

Rebellion

Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

Radetzkymarsch [German]

The Radetzky March

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