One man's faith is tested, lost and restored in this gem of a novel by 20th century Jewish Austrian writer Joseph Roth. Mendel Singer, a Jewish-Orthodox schoolteacher, lives in early 20th century Galicia. A modern-day Job, he is subjected to one misfortune after another. As a result of these terrible trials, Mendel Singer's worldview shatters, along with his belief in God's benign omnipotence. Only a miracle can now restore his faith.
Job is perfect. . . . a novel as lyric poem. --Joan Acocella
Galician Jewry achieved another grand figure in Joseph Roth, whose Job is both immensely sorrowful and finally strangely hopeful. --Harold Bloom
Job is more than a novel and legend, it is a pure, perfect poetic work, which is destined to outlast everything that we, his contemporaries, have created and written. In unity of construction, in depth of feeling, in purity, in the musicality of the language, it can scarcely be surpassed. --Stefan Zweig
This life of an everyday man moves us as if someone had written of our lives, our longings, our struggles. Roth's language has the discipline and rigor of German Classicism. A great and harrowing book that no one can resist. --Ernst Toller
A beautifully written, and in the end uplifting, parable for an era of upheaval . . . Job, opened to any page, offers something of beauty. . . Ross Benjamin's excellent new translation gives us both the realism and the poetry. "--The Quarterly Conversation "
The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragedie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction. --Nadine Gordimer
"Galician Jewry achieved another grand figure in Joseph Roth, whose "Job" is both immensely sorrowful and finally strangely hopeful."
Harold Bloom
""Job" is more than a novel and legend, it is a pure, perfect poetic work, which is destined to outlast everything that we, his contemporaries, have created and written. In unity of construction, in depth of feeling, in purity, in the musicality of the language, it can scarcely be surpassed."
Stefan Zweig
"This life of an everyday man moves us as if someone had written of our lives, our longings, our struggles. Roth's language has the discipline and rigor of German Classicism. A great and harrowing book that no one can resist."
Ernst Toller
""Job" is perfect, and small: a novel as lyric poem."
Joan Acocella
"The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a "tragedie humaine" achieved in the techniques of modern fiction."
Nadine Gordimer
Job is perfect. . . . a novel as lyric poem.
Joan Acocella Galician Jewry achieved another grand figure in Joseph Roth, whose Job is both immensely sorrowful and finally strangely hopeful.
Harold Bloom Jobis more than a novel and legend, it is a pure, perfect poetic work, which is destined to outlast everything that we, his contemporaries, have created and written. In unity of construction, in depth of feeling, in purity, in the musicality of the language, it can scarcely be surpassed.
Stefan Zweig This life of an everyday man moves us as if someone had written of our lives, our longings, our struggles. Roth s language has the discipline and rigor of German Classicism. A great and harrowing book that no one can resist.
Ernst Toller A beautifully written, and in the end uplifting, parable for an era of upheaval . . .Job, opened to any page, offers something of beauty. . . Ross Benjamin's excellent new translation gives us both the realism and the poetry.
The Quarterly Conversation The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragedie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction.
Nadine Gordimer"
Job is perfect. . . . a novel as lyric poem.
--Joan Acocella Galician Jewry achieved another grand figure in Joseph Roth, whose Job is both immensely sorrowful and finally strangely hopeful.
--Harold Bloom Job is more than a novel and legend, it is a pure, perfect poetic work, which is destined to outlast everything that we, his contemporaries, have created and written. In unity of construction, in depth of feeling, in purity, in the musicality of the language, it can scarcely be surpassed.
--Stefan Zweig This life of an everyday man moves us as if someone had written of our lives, our longings, our struggles. Roth's language has the discipline and rigor of German Classicism. A great and harrowing book that no one can resist.
--Ernst Toller A beautifully written, and in the end uplifting, parable for an era of upheaval . . . Job, opened to any page, offers something of beauty. . . Ross Benjamin's excellent new translation gives us both the realism and the poetry.
--The Quarterly Conversation The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragedie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction.
--Nadine Gordimer
