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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

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Author Biography: Joseph Roth

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.

Book Synopsis

Roth's novellas and short stories will rank with Chekhov's and Kafka's as among the greatest of modern literature.

Nadine Gordimer

The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragedie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction.

Table of Contents

Introduction9
The Honors Student17
Barbara31
Career40
The place I want to tell you about ...47
Sick People54
Rare and ever rarer in this world of empirical facts ...66
The Cartel71
April: The story of a love affair79
The Blind Mirror98
The Grand House Opposite134
Strawberries138
This morning, a letter arrived ...166
Youth173
Stationmaster Fallmerayer180
The Triumph of Beauty: A Novella202
The Bust of the Emperor: A Novella227
The Leviathan: A Novella248
About the Stories277
About the Author279
About the Translator281

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