The Legend of the Holy Drinker - Couverture rigide

Roth, Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701134801 ISBN 13 : 9780701134808

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1989

Synopsis

Roth wrote this final novella shortly before his death in 1939. It is the story of the last weeks in the life of a Parisian alcoholic and convicted murderer. The book has been made into a film, which won the 1988 Palme D'Or at the Venice Film Festival.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

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 for Paris, where he died in poverty a few years later. His books include What I Saw, Job, The White Cities, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books. MICHAEL HOFMANN is the highly acclaimed translator of Joseph Roth, Wolfgang Koeppen, Kafka and Brecht, and the author of several books of poems and book of criticism. He has translated nine previous books by Joseph Roth. He teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This novella, one of the most haunting things that Joseph Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the year the author died. Like Andreas, the hero of the story, Roth drank himself to death in Paris, but this is not an autobiographical confession. Rather, it is a secular miracle-tale, in which the vagrant Andreas, after living under bridges, has a surprising run of good luck that changes his circumstances profoundly. The novella is extraordinarily compressed, dry-eyed and witty, despite its melancholic subject matter.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701134801
• ISBN 13: 9780701134808
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible