Description
In The Spider's Web, his first novel, Roth 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.
In The Spider's Web, his first novel, Roth 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.
About the Author
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany and he died in poverty in Paris. His novels include What I Saw, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Right and Left, The Emperor's Tomb, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta.
Reviews
Joseph Roth is one of those rare and welcome talents whose concision and deceptive simplicity send the cogs of the imagination whizzing into overdrive * Sunday Telegraph *
The true reading pleasure afforded by the rich environment Roth captures may well have increase over time, while the schisms at the heart of Europe continue to fascinate. It seems that we are rediscovering in twentieth-century Central European literature classics for a new millennium * Time Out *
Reading [Roth] is like reading a prophet: provocative, discomforting, full of insight and foreboding * Tribune *
Book Information
ISBN 9781862076761
Author Joseph Roth
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
Weight(grams) 100g
Dimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm * 10mm
In The Spider's Web, his first novel, Roth 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.
About the Author
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany and he died in poverty in Paris. His novels include What I Saw, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Right and Left, The Emperor's Tomb, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta.
Reviews
Joseph Roth is one of those rare and welcome talents whose concision and deceptive simplicity send the cogs of the imagination whizzing into overdrive * Sunday Telegraph *
The true reading pleasure afforded by the rich environment Roth captures may well have increase over time, while the schisms at the heart of Europe continue to fascinate. It seems that we are rediscovering in twentieth-century Central European literature classics for a new millennium * Time Out *
Reading [Roth] is like reading a prophet: provocative, discomforting, full of insight and foreboding * Tribune *
Book Information
ISBN 9781862076761
Author Joseph Roth
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
Weight(grams) 100g
Dimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm * 10mm
