Weights and Measures - Hardcover

Le Vay, D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0720605628 ISBN 13: 9780720605624

Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers, 1982

Synopsis

Weights and Measures

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Review

'This small novel is a masterpiece.' - Angela Huth, Listener; 'Weights and Measures gave me the purest reading pleasure... A haunting little book, touched by genius.' - Robert Nye, Guardian; 'A masterly performance.' - Paul Bailey, Evening Standard; 'An absorbing fable, dark, beautifully written and with a physical immediacy in the prose... I want to read more.' - New Statesman; 'Written with the melancholy wit and grace of Gogol... passages of electrifying beauty.' - The Times

About the Author

Joseph Roth has never been more popular. In this late novel - widely praised and rarely available in English - an artillery officer is persuaded by his resentful wife to leave the Austro-Hungarian army to take up a civilian post as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a remote territory near the Russian border. Attempting to exercise some proper rectitude in his trade duties he is soon at a loss in a shadowy world of smugglers, profiteers and petty crooks. Joseph Roth is an important commentator on the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; Weights and Measures registers on both an historical and personal level to portray the slow capitulation of a good man and his traditional standards to insidious small-time corruption and to his own destructive passion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0720605628
• ISBN 13: 9780720605624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 150