Joseph Roth - A Life in Letters

An unforgettable portrait of the Austro-Hungarian author of The Radetzky March, this biography in letters - selected here for the first time by Michael Hofmann - is classic European literature at its finest

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 Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany and he died in poverty in Paris. His novels include What I Saw, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Right and Left, The Emperor's Tomb, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books.Michael Hofmann is a poet. He has translated the works of many writers, including Brecht, Kafka, Fallada and Roth. He teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Summary

An unforgettable portrait of the Austro-Hungarian author of The Radetzky March, this biography in letters - selected here for the first time by Michael Hofmann - is classic European literature at its finest

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Roth
• Assisted by: Michael Hofmann (Translation)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2013
• EAN: 9781847083418
• ISBN: 978-1-84708-341-8
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 409 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Diaries, letters and journals, Biography: writers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs