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    The Radetzky March

    Introduction by Alan Bance

    Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

    Author Joseph Roth
    Introduction by Alan Bance
    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel
    Hardcover
    $28.00 US
    Knopf | Everyman's Library
    On sale Oct 01, 1996 | 376 Pages | 9780679451006
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    By one of the most distinguished Austrian writers of our century, a portrait of three generations set against the panoramic background of the declining Austro-Hungarian Empire. Translated by a three-time winner of the PEN Translation Prize.

    JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939) was an Austrian novelist, essayist, journalist, and publisher. An outspoken critic of Hitler and militarism, he moved to Paris in 1933. Roth’s 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, an ironic portrait of the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is considered to be his masterpiece.

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    “One of the most readable, poignant, and superb novels in twentieth-century German: it stands with the best of Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, and Robert Musil. Roth was a cultural monument of Galician Jewry: ironic, compassionate, perfectly pitched to his catastrophic era.”
    —HAROLD BLOOM

    “A masterpiece . . . The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragédie humaine
    Achieved in the techniques of modern fiction.”
    —NADINE GORDIMER

    “Epic . . . brilliantly achieved . . . the portrait of an empty age, an age of gold braid and glitter.”
    —THE NEW YORK TIMES

    “It is hard to praise this novel sufficiently . . . [It] is exceptional for . . . the tolerance and pity and humorous magnanimity with which the author regards his characters.”
    —CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

    With a new introduction by Alan Bance

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    By one of the most distinguished Austrian writers of our century, a portrait of three generations set against the panoramic background of the declining Austro-Hungarian Empire. Translated by a three-time winner of the PEN Translation Prize.

    Author

    JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939) was an Austrian novelist, essayist, journalist, and publisher. An outspoken critic of Hitler and militarism, he moved to Paris in 1933. Roth’s 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, an ironic portrait of the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is considered to be his masterpiece.

    View titles by Joseph Roth

    Praise

    “One of the most readable, poignant, and superb novels in twentieth-century German: it stands with the best of Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, and Robert Musil. Roth was a cultural monument of Galician Jewry: ironic, compassionate, perfectly pitched to his catastrophic era.”
    —HAROLD BLOOM

    “A masterpiece . . . The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragédie humaine
    Achieved in the techniques of modern fiction.”
    —NADINE GORDIMER

    “Epic . . . brilliantly achieved . . . the portrait of an empty age, an age of gold braid and glitter.”
    —THE NEW YORK TIMES

    “It is hard to praise this novel sufficiently . . . [It] is exceptional for . . . the tolerance and pity and humorous magnanimity with which the author regards his characters.”
    —CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

    With a new introduction by Alan Bance

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