Three Novellas: The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Fallmerayer the Stationmaster and the Bust of Th
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Book Overview
Written in the final days of Roth's life, it is a novella of sparkling lucidity and humanity. "Fallmerayer the Stationmaster" and "The Bust of the Emperor" are Roth's most acclaimed works of shorter fiction.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1585674486
ISBN13:9781585674480
Release Date:October 2003
Publisher:Overlook Press
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.23 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 8.1"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Related Subjects
Classics Contemporary Fiction Literary Literature & Fiction Short Stories World LiteratureCustomer Reviews
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Erzahlungen by a 20th Century Master
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
A sumptuous, mordant, and richly pleasing trio of smartly-written short stories from Roth, master chronicler of the Mitteleuropean interregnum. Filled with human colour utterly absent from other better known authors of the period, Roth captures not only the time and place, but feel and flavour, of a fascinating - and crucial - cultural moment one can only otherwise approximate in the music of Berg, Zemlinsky, Gurlitt, and the entartete musik crowd. A truly wonderful entree to the works of Joesph Roth.
Solid and moving European prose of another era
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
The translations of Roth's stories offered in this slim volume are all the more extraordinary in that they allow the reader to walk next to the stories' narrators as they describe their settings and characters. Whether it is the simple peasants who don't comprehend the end of an empire in their sleepy little village, a clochard with a debt, or a simple stationmaster who longs for love and life, Roth holds these simple characters up as icons of a time and world that struggles with the progress of politics, morals, and perspectives. I recommend these stories for the beauty of the language and the beauty of Roth's gift of storytelling.
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