Works of Joseph Roth: The Emperor's Tomb (Paperback)

from akfarrar

Spanning the First World War, this short novel outlines the fall from grace of a minor Austro-Hungarian Noble, a scion of a once proud and heroic family. It is quite a bleak book in many ways - and reminds me of the world Beckett creates in Waiting for Godot. There is an inevitability in the fall...

from rmckeown

A friend told me I must drop what I was reading and take up Joseph Roth's The Radetsky March. Words like tremendous, a masterpiece, and unbelievably beautiful were tossed around like confetti. I hate to be cynical about my friends, so I concealed all but the tiniest bit of skepticism. Then I read...

from akfarrar

Spanning the First World War, this short novel outlines the fall from grace of a minor Austro-Hungarian Noble, a scion of a once proud and heroic family. It is quite a bleak book in many ways - and reminds me of the world Beckett creates in Waiting for Godot. There is an inevitability in the fall...

from rmckeown

A friend told me I must drop what I was reading and take up Joseph Roth's The Radetsky March. Words like tremendous, a masterpiece, and unbelievably beautiful were tossed around like confetti. I hate to be cynical about my friends, so I concealed all but the tiniest bit of skepticism. Then I read...