Weights and Measures - Couverture souple

Roth, Joseph

 
9780720611366: Weights and Measures
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0720611369 ISBN 13 : 9780720611366
Editeur : Peter Owen, 2002

Synopsis

'To write about this finely economical book in any terms other than its own is cruelly to distort the near-perfection of the original text. There is a vision here which dismays.' - Guardian

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À propos de l?auteur

Joseph Roth has never been more popular. In this late novel - widely praised and rarely available in English - an artillery officer is persuaded by his resentful wife to leave the Austro-Hungarian army to take up a civilian post as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a remote territory near the Russian border. Attempting to exercise some proper rectitude in his trade duties he is soon at a loss in a shadowy world of smugglers, profiteers and petty crooks. Joseph Roth is an important commentator on the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; Weights and Measures registers on both an historical and personal level to portray the slow capitulation of a good man and his traditional standards to insidious small-time corruption and to his own destructive passion.

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Éditeur
Peter Owen
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0720611369
ISBN 13 
9780720611366
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781805330653: Weights and Measures

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1805330659 ISBN 13 :  9781805330653
Editeur : Pushkin Press Classics, 2024
Couverture souple