The Legend Of The Holy Drinker - Couverture souple

Roth, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847086187 ISBN 13 : 9781847086181

Editeur : Granta Books, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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À propos des auteurs

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, The Emperor's Tomb and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books.

Michael Hofmann is a poet and German translator. His most recent collection of poems is One Lark, One Horse. He is a Granta contributing editor.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847086187
• ISBN 13: 9781847086181
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Masereel Frans
• Nombre de pages: 112
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