Collected Shorter Fiction of Joseph Roth - Hardcover

Roth, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 186207447X ISBN 13: 9781862074477

Publisher: Granta Books, 2001

Synopsis

Joseph Roth has always enjoyed critical acclaim in the USA, but his novels were out of print for many years in the UK. In recent years a new generation of readers has discovered this modern master of the laconic, emblematic narrative - an artist responding to the madness of inter-war Europe with an unsentimental humanism. Roth's prose is quick, lucid, and ironic; his fictions read like realist fables. Beneath these polished surfaces darker currents - of violence, hatred, racism and personal loss - cannot be ignored. Granta here presents Roth's collected stories and novellas, in new translations by the poet Michael Hofmann. They include 'Fallermayr the Stationmaster' and 'The Bust of the Emperor', bitter comedies of the last days of the Hapsburgs; 'Strawberries', the story of a small town in Galicia, and many other astonishing shorter fiction.

About this title

About the Author

Joseph Roth's (1894-1939) books include The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Right and Left, The Emperor's Tomb, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March. Michael Hofmann is a poet. His most recent collection is Approximately Nowhere. As a translator his work includes Kafka's The Man who Disappeared (Amerika). He has also translated Joseph Roth's The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Right and Left and The String of Pearls.

Edition details

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 186207447X
• ISBN 13: 9781862074477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256