Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters Contributor(s): Roth, Joseph (Author), Hofmann, Michael (Editor), Hofmann, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0393060640 ISBN-13: 9780393060645 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Collections | Letters |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2011032677 |
Physical Information: 1.9" H x 6.7" W x 9.3" (1.75 lbs) 512 pages |
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Publisher Description: Who would have thought that seventy-three years after Joseph Roth's lonely death in Paris, new editions of his translations would be appearing regularly? Roth, a transcendent novelist who also produced some of the most breathtakingly lyrical journalism ever written, is now being discovered by a new generation. Nine years in the making, this life through letters provides us with our most extensive portrait of Roth's calamitous life--his father's madness, his wife's schizophrenia, his parade of mistresses (each more exotic than the next), and his classic westward journey from a virtual Hapsburg shtetl to Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt, and finally Paris. Containing 457 newly translated letters, along with eloquent introductions that richly frame Roth's life, this book brilliantly evokes the crumbling specters of the Weimar Republic and 1930s France. Displaying Roth's ceaselessly inventive powers, it finally charts his descent into despair at a time when "the word had died, and] men bark like dogs." |
Contributor Bio(s): Roth, Joseph: - Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He published several books and articles before his untimely death at the age of 44. Roth's writing has been admired by J. M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Elie Wiesel, and Nadine Gordimer, among many others.Hofmann, Michael: - The poet Michael Hofmann has won numerous prizes for his German translations.Hofmann, Michael: - The poet Michael Hofmann has won numerous prizes for his German translations. |