Confession of A Murderer - Hardcover

Roth, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8190505068 ISBN 13: 9788190505062

Publisher: Narendra Publishing House, 2011

Synopsis

Illegitimate son of a Russian prince and raised by a forester, the narrator joins the Ochrana, the Czar's secret police, and plans revenge on his legitimate half brother

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Review

This is a welcome reissue of a novel by one of the great Central European writers of the 20th century. A prolific political journalist and novelist, Joseph Roth admired the old Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg Empire as a cosmopolitan world and noted its decline as a sad chapter in European history. In Confessions of a Murderer, first published in 1936, a former Russian secret agent holds court in a tiny Russian restaurant in Paris as he tells of his quest to claim the noble name of his father, his destructive love affair and his hatred for his half-brother, the rightful prince. The colourful story - which has backdrops of pre-World War One Paris, rural Russia and St Petersburg before the Revolution - is told in a graceful, fluent narrative of genuine depth and richness.

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 Pearls.

Edition details

• Publisher: Narendra Publishing House
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8190505068
• ISBN 13: 9788190505062
• Binding: Hardcover