Bøger af Joseph Roth

The incomparable Joseph Roth imagines Emperor Napoleon's last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and that of the lowly, devoted palace laundress Angelica-an unlucky creature who deeply loves him. In The Hundred Days, Roth refracts the deep sorrow of their intertwined fates.Roth's signature lyrical elegance and haunting atmospheric details sing in The Hundred Days. "There may be," as James Wood has stated, "no modern writer more able to combine the novelistic and the poetic, to blend lusty, undamaged realism with sparkling powers of metaphor and simile."

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

The Collected Stories, in its variety and force, is the essential introduction to the fiction of Joseph Roth.

"[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers."-Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review

'The White Cities collects fifteen years of incomparable reportage... What Roth sees is always arresting, often atrocious, usually absurd... A "journalism" which is equal parts Baudelaire, Dickens and Kafka' Scotland on Sunday

Set in Vienna in the early part of the twentieth century, Zipper and His Father is Joseph Roth's compelling and wonderfully atmospheric portrayal of a childhood friend, Arnold Zipper, and his father, as seen through the eyes of a young boy.

The story of Great War veteran Andreas Pum. When he is imprisoned after a fight, life seems unbearable. A chance encounter with an old comrade who has made his fortune introduces Pum to a world where he has a transfiguring experience of justice.

Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages to bring to his story a completely individual manner which gives at the same time the detailed and intimate portrait of a life and the wider panorama of a failing dynasty.

In The Spider's Web, his first novel, Roth paints a chillingly realistic picture of the conspiracies of the radical right that were to undermine the Weimar Republic and pave the way for Hitler and National Socialism.

RADETZKYMARCH, er fortællekunst af fineste karat. Med lidenskab, indsigt og medfølelse levendegør Joseph Roth det østrig-ungarske kejserdømmes sidste dage.RADETZKYMARCH er Roths berømte ironisk-nostalgiske roman en om den slovenske familie Trottas liv gennem tre generationer. Fra midten af det 19. århundrede over 1. verdenskrig og til det østrig-ungarske kejserdømmes nedgang og fald. Bogen udkommer i Rosinantes klassikerserie og har forord af Kristian Ditlev Jensen. Pressen skriver:»Roth er en forfatter, der kan kombinere de store episke linjer med sansevækkende detaljeskildringer. Han kan panorere over felttog og folkemængder i farvestærke skildringer af multikulturel brogethed, han kan zoome ind på en dråbe af væske fra kejserens næse, han kan lade os føle mikroklimaskiftene på en kvindeskulder.«– Lilian Munk Rösing, Information