Synopsis
In perhaps his most personal novel, Joseph Roth tells the story of Franz Tunda, an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, who disappears in Siberia at the end of the First World War. After 10 years of fighting with the Bolsheviks, having affairs with beautiful communists, and eking out a living at the edge of the world, on his eventual return to his native Austria, Franz Tunda finds the old European order has vanished, and there is no place for him any more in the new culture that has taken its place. Everywhere he finds himself an outsider, consigned to a life of social and cultural isolation. Mirroring Roth&;s own experience of exile, Flight Without End reflects the predicament of the disaffected intellectual who can find no role for himself in a changed world. Part of the new look Peter Owen Modern Classics range featuring a logo crafted by graphic design icon Alvin Lustig.
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About the Author
David le Vay was a prolific translator from German and French, whose translations include works by Joseph Roth and Colette. Joseph Roth was born in Brody, Galicia&;then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire now in Ukraine&;in 1894. He is best known for the novels The Radetzky March, Job, and The Legend of the Holy Drinker. A brilliant and insightful journalist, as early as 1923 he warned against the threat of National Socialism. In 1933, with his warnings about Fascism unheeded, he left Germany in disgust and moved to Paris where depression and alcoholism overcame him, and he died in exile in 1939.
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