Authors: Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann
ISBN-13: 9780393323795, ISBN-10: 039332379X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: June 2003
Edition: Reprint
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) is the author of such classics as The Radetzky March and The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth.
For his translations, acclaimed poet Michael Hofmann has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Dublin International IMPAC Award, the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and The Schlegel-Tieck Prize (four times). He is the highly acclaimed translator of, among others, Kafka, Brecht, and Joseph Roth.
Roth's novellas and short stories will rank with Chekhov's and Kafka's as among the greatest of modern literature.
The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragedie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction.
Introduction | 9 | |
The Honors Student | 17 | |
Barbara | 31 | |
Career | 40 | |
The place I want to tell you about ... | 47 | |
Sick People | 54 | |
Rare and ever rarer in this world of empirical facts ... | 66 | |
The Cartel | 71 | |
April: The story of a love affair | 79 | |
The Blind Mirror | 98 | |
The Grand House Opposite | 134 | |
Strawberries | 138 | |
This morning, a letter arrived ... | 166 | |
Youth | 173 | |
Stationmaster Fallmerayer | 180 | |
The Triumph of Beauty: A Novella | 202 | |
The Bust of the Emperor: A Novella | 227 | |
The Leviathan: A Novella | 248 | |
About the Stories | 277 | |
About the Author | 279 | |
About the Translator | 281 |