The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919–1939 (paperback): 47 (Brill's Jewish Studies) - Softcover

Lazaroms, Ilse Josepha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004234853 ISBN 13: 9789004234857

Publisher: Brill, 2012

Synopsis

Winner of the 2014 Victor Adler State Prize from the Austrian Ministry of Science and Education!

The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile 1919–1939 confronts the life and intellectual heritage of the Galician-Jewish exiled journalist and writer Joseph Roth (1894–1939). Through the quandaries that occupied his mature writings―nostalgia, suffering, European culture, Judaism, exile, self-narration―the book analyses the greater Central European literary culture of the interwar European years through the lens of modern displacement and Jewish identity.

Moving between his journalism, novels and correspondence, Lazaroms follows Roth's life as it rapidly disintegrated alongside radicalized politics, exile, the rise of Nazism, and Europe’s descent into another world war. Despite these tragedies, which forced him into homelessness, Roth confronted his predicament with an ever-growing political intensity. The Grace of Misery is an intellectual portrait of a profoundly modern writer whose works have gained a renewed readership in the last decade.

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About the Author

Ilse Josepha Lazaroms, Ph.D. (2010), is a post-doctoral research fellow at the History Department at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, and the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena, Germany. This is her first book.

From the Back Cover

"The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile 1919 1939" confronts the life and intellectual heritage of the Galician-Jewish exiled journalist and writer Joseph Roth (1894 1939). Through the quandaries that occupied his mature writings nostalgia, suffering, European culture, Judaism, exile, self-narration the book analyses the greater Central European literary culture of the interwar European years through the lens of modern displacement and Jewish identity. Moving between his journalism, novels and correspondence, Lazaroms follows Roth's life as it rapidly disintegrated alongside radicalized politics, exile, the rise of Nazism, and Europe s descent into another world war. Despite these tragedies, which forced him into homelessness, Roth confronted his predicament with an ever-growing political intensity. "The Grace of Misery" is an intellectual portrait of a profoundly modern writer whose works have gained a renewed readership in the last decade.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004234853
• ISBN 13: 9789004234857
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228