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Synopsis
Roth wrote this final novella shortly before his death in 1939. It is the story of the last weeks in the life of a Parisian alcoholic and convicted murderer. The book has been made into a film, which won the 1988 Palme D'Or at the Venice Film Festival.
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Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was a superb writer whose compact yet lambent fiction deserves the highest praise (and a much wider readership). The Legend of the Holy Drinker, written and published in the year of his death, is a deeply affecting tale of Andreas, an alcoholic like Roth, who drinks himself to death in the rough houses of Paris.
Michael Hoffman's superb translation has rightly garnered much praise. Hoffman stresses that, although often esteemed for the simplicity of his style, Roth is no brutalist: it is the economy and the directness of his writing that is so moving and makes his work so special. Despite its melancholic subject matter The Legend is an uplifting novella.
Throughout the tale Andreas, previously an impoverished vagrant, is continuously visited by miraculous good fortune that illuminates the last days of his mendicant existence and lift him, and the reader, to a new understanding of his (our) dissolution. Roth was a peerless writer and Granta must be praised for bringing him back to our attention in such lovely volumes. --Mark Thwaite
About the Author
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.
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The Legend of the Holy Drinker
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Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London, 1990
ISBN 10: 0330312677
ISBN 13: 9780330312677
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Roth wrote this final novella shortly before his death in 1939. It is the story of the last weeks in the life of a Parisian alcoholic and convicted murderer. The book has been made into a film, which won the 1988 Palme D'Or at the Venice Film Festival. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001860303
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The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Picador Books)
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Paperback. Condition: As New. An unused book with minor shelfwear to cover. Translated from the German by Michael Hoffmann. A man who is surviving under a bridge of the Seine experiences a series of miracles. Size: 5 x 7 1/2. Seller Inventory # 3800-18
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THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY DRINKER [First UK paperback edition - second impression]
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Picador, London, 1990
ISBN 10: 0330312677
ISBN 13: 9780330312677
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann (illustrator). First UK Paperback Edition. Second impression of the first UK paperback edition, published in Picador's Picador Classics series in 1990 - with the number string: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 on the printer's page. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. The book was first published in English in the UK in hardcover, in this translation, by Chatto & Windus in 1989. The book was recently reissued in 2022 in this translation by Granta Books. The book was originally published in German by Allert de Lange, Amsterdam as "Die Legende von Heilegen Trimker'. ***Near fine in glossy card illustrated covers, with the original publisher's printed price of £2.99 net on the back cover. The covers are just slightly rubbed and creased at the edges, commensurate with age and handling. Spine tight without any reading creases. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean with no annotations or foxing. The paper stock has tanned with age. No creases or tears. ***49 pages plus five printed pages of publisher's adverts at the back of the book. 198mm x 130mm. ***'"The Legend of the Holy Drinker" is Joseph Roth's last work, written and published a few months either side of his death in May 1939. Filmed by Ermanno Olmi as "La Leggende del Santo Bevitore" -- winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1988 Venice Film Festival'. [Quote taken from the back cover] *** Joseph Roth (1894-1939), was an Austrian writer and journalist. He was forced out of his country because of the rise of Nazism. "The Legend of the Holy Drinker" (German: Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker) is a 1939 novella by Austrian writer Joseph Roth, published posthumously by Allert de Lange Verlag in Amsterdam. It tells the story of a homeless alcoholic, Andreas, who wants to return money he has borrowed, but fails because he spends all of his money on alcohol. [Wiki] ***Second impression of the uncommon first UK paperback edition of Roth's final book to be published before the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of the work of Joseph Roth. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # PB386
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