Confession Of A Murderer - Couverture souple

Roth, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1862076219 ISBN 13 : 9781862076211

Editeur : Granta Books, 2003

Synopsis

'I have killed and yet I consider myself to be a good man.' So begins the tale of former Russian secret agent Golubchik, holding court after hours in a tiny Russian restaurant on Paris's left bank. As he recounts his tale to a rapt audience, they find themselves drawn into his futile quest to claim the noble name of his father, his destructive love affair with a beautiful model and his hatred for his half-brother, the rightful Prince. Confession of a Murderer spans rural Russia, cosmopolitan St Petersburg and pre-First World War Paris and alternately fascinates and horrifies the reader with its wild story of collaboration, deception and murder in the days leading up to the Russian Revolution.

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 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 Books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1862076219
• ISBN 13: 9781862076211
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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