Legend of the Holy Drinker - Couverture souple

Roth, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1862074712 ISBN 13 : 9781862074712

Editeur : Granta Books, 2001

Synopsis

This book, one of the most haunting things that 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. It is a secular miracle-tale, in which the vagrant Andreas, after living under bridges, has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of existence. The novella is extraordinarily compressed, dry-eyed and witty, despite its melancholic subject-matter. The Legend of the Holy Drinker was tumed into a film by Enrico Olmi, starring Rutger Hauer.

A propos du livre

À propos 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 Austrian Empire. He wrote thirteen novels, including The Radetzky March and The String of Pearts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1862074712
• ISBN 13: 9781862074712
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
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