Right and Left - Softcover

Roth, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585674923 ISBN 13: 9781585674923

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Joseph Roth has been described as ?one of the greatest writers in German of this century? ("The Times"). With tragic foresight, "Right and Left," first published in 1929, evokes the nightlife, corruption, political unrest, and economic tyranny of Berlin in the twenties, the same territory covered trenchantly in Roth's reportage, recently published as "What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-33."

After serving in World War I, Paul Bernheim returns to Berlin to find himself heir to his recently deceased father's banking empire. Increasingly beset by skyrocketing inflation, and dismayed by his brother's infatuation with the brownshirts, Bernheim turns to an outsider for help?a profiteering Russian ?migr? whose advice proves alternately advantageous and disastrous. Too late to change his fate, he realizes he has been decieved by a master in the craft of manipulation.

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Review:

"What Roth sees and hands on is a unique essence, conveying the fragility of what is truly human in us, the ridiculous and the tragic."

aWhat Roth sees and hands on is a unique essence, conveying the fragility of what is truly human in us, the ridiculous and the tragic.a(Nadine Gordimer, "The Threepenny Review")

What Roth sees and hands on is a unique essence, conveying the fragility of what is truly human in us, the ridiculous and the tragic. (Nadine Gordimer, "The Threepenny Review")

?What Roth sees and hands on is a unique essence, conveying the fragility of what is truly human in us, the ridiculous and the tragic.?(Nadine Gordimer, "The Threepenny Review")

About the Author:

Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the eastern borders of the Hapsburg Empire. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. He died in Paris in 1939, leaving behind thirteen novels as well as many stories and essays.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1585674923
• ISBN 13: 9781585674923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 235