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| Taschenbuch: | Die Rebellion: Ein Roman |
Autor: | Joseph Roth, Ausgabe vom 4. Januar 2010, Verkaufsrang 138158 |
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Readers of Joseph Roth's entre-les-guerres masterpiece < I> The Radetzky March might reasonably take him for a peculiar kind of royalist. Again and again the author declares his nostalgia for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had gone down in flames in 1918, even as he lampoons the regime's stodginess and casual cruelty. In his youth, however, he was an ardent man of the left, who earned the nickname < I>der rote Roth: Red Roth. And his third novel, < I> Rebellion, is perhaps the closest thing he ever wrote to an engagé work of fiction. Chronicling the trials (literal and figurative) of a downtrodden prole, Roth seems sincerely indignant-and he even allows his protagonist a fiery speech in the final pages, during which the Almighty Himself gets an effective spanking: " How impotent You are in your omnipotence! You have billions of accounts and make mistakes in individual items? What kind of God are you? " Prior to this point, Andreas Pum hasn't exactly been a model of biblical eloquence. After losing a leg in World War I, he's made his living as a beggar with a hurdy-gurdy, soliciting coins from passers-by. This pious lamebrain does have the luck to marry a voluptuous widow and for a brief moment he partakes of "a new and numbing blissfulness, which armours us against the offences and hurts of the world. " But a quarrel with a middle-class snob on a tram soon deprives Andreas of his wife, his beggar's license and his freedom. Thus begins his descent, which Roth narrates in such a rapid-fire style that this Viennese Job seems to hit bottom almost overnight. Perhaps Andreas's final jeremiad-and indeed, his transformation into a quasi-anarchist-betrays the hand of an ideological stage manager. Yet Roth was far too brilliant a novelist to dabble in social realism and even his portrait of Andreas's sentencing judge is deliciously equivocating: The judge himself was clean-shaven. He had an impassive face of granite majesty, like a dead emperor's. It was gray as weathered sandstone . . . It was a face that might have looked heartless and implacable, had the middle of its powerful masculine chin not held an appealing, almost child-like dimple. For this die-hard fan of the Dual Monarchy, of course, the comparison to a dead emperor was the highest of compliments. But it was the novelist in Roth, not the left-leaning polemicist, who decided to add the dimple. -< I> James Marcus Readers of Joseph Roth's entre-les-guerres masterpiece < I> The Radetzky March might reasonably take him for a peculiar kind of royalist. Again and again the author declares his nostalgia for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had gone down in flames in 1918, even as he lampoons the regime's stodginess and casual cruelty. In his youth, however, he was an ardent man of the left, who earned the nickname < I>der rote Roth: Red Roth. And his third novel, < I> Rebellion, is perhaps the closest thing he ever wrote to an < I>engagé work of fiction. Chronicling the trials (literal and figurative) of a downtrodden prole, Roth seems sincerely indignant-and he even allows his protagonist a fiery speech in the final pages, during which the Almighty Himself gets an effective spanking: " How impotent You are in your omnipotence! You have billions of accounts, and make mistakes in individual items? What kind of God are you? " Prior to this point, Andreas Pum hasn't exactly been a model of biblical eloquence. After losing a leg in World War I, he's made his living as a beggar with a hurdy-gurdy, soliciting coins from passersby. This pious lamebrain does have the luck to marry a voluptuous widow, and for a brief moment he partakes of "a new and numbing blissfulness, which armors us against the offenses and hurts of the world. " But a quarrel with a middle-class snob on a tram soon deprives Andreas of his wife, his beggar's license, and his freedom. Thus begins his descent, which Roth narrates in such a rapid-fire style that this Viennese Job seems to hit bottom almost overnight. Perhaps Andreas's final jeremiad-and indeed, his transformation into a quasi-anarchist-betrays the hand of an ideological stage manager. Yet Roth was far too brilliant a novelist to dabble in social realism, and even his portrait of Andreas's sentencing judge is deliciously equivocating: The judge himself was clean-shaven. He had an impassive face of granite majesty, like a dead emperor's. It was gray as weathered sandstone. . . . It was a face that might have looked heartless and implacable, had the middle of its powerful masculine chin not held an appealing, almost childlike dimple. For this diehard fan of the Dual Monarchy, of course, the comparison to a dead emperor was the highest of compliments. But it was the novelist in Roth, not the left-leaning polemicist, who decided to add the dimple. < I>-James Marcus
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| Buch: | Hiob - Erläuterungen und Dokumente |
Autor: | Joseph Roth, Ausgabe vom Febr. 2004, Taschenbuch, Verkaufsrang 100166 |
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| Buch: | Die Geschichte von der 1002 - Nacht |
Autor: | Joseph Roth, Ausgabe vom 17. Febr. 2005, Taschenbuch, Verkaufsrang 59057 |
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Joseph Roth neu entdecken - mit diesem Querschnitt seiner Romane, Erzählungen und Feuilletons Er war einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts, erlangte Weltruhm mit seinen Romanen " Hiob" und " Radetzkymarsch". Von der Vielfalt, dem Reichtum und der Kraft seines Erzählens zeugt diese Auswahl. " Die Geschichte von der 1002. Nacht" erzählt, wie Mizzi Schinagl im Wien des 19. Jahrhunderts für eine Nacht die Geliebte des Schahs von Persien wird und dafür büßt.
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| Buch: | Das falsche Gewicht: Die Geschichte eines Eichmeisters - (Roman) |
Autor: | Joseph Roth, Ausgabe vom 1990, Taschenbuch, Verkaufsrang 355588 |
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| Buch: | Triumph der Schönheit |
Autor: | Joseph Roth, Ausgabe vom Okt. 2008, Sondereinband, Verkaufsrang 212449 |
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In der Erzählung Der Leviathan sehnt sich der jüdische Korallenhändler Nissen Piczenik nach dem Meer. Obwohl er die echten Korallen mehr als alles liebt, verfällt er schließlich dem Betrug mit den falschen. Joseph Roth erzählt von Liebessehnsucht und schiefer Bahn, von einem einfachen Stationsvorsteher, der sich in eine russische Adlige verliebt, von einer englischen femme fatale mit himmelblauen Augen und langweiligem Kinn, von einem kaisertreuen Grafen und einer sich aufopfernden Mutter, vom Geschmack von Erdbeeren und der Milde des Aprils. Wie der Titel einer seiner Novellen ist Joseph Roths Erzählkunst selbst ein Triumph der Schönheit .
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| Buch: | Die Kapuzinergruft |
Autor: | Joseph Roth, Ausgabe vom Nov. 2005, Gebunden, Verkaufsrang 40106 |
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| Buch: | Hotel Savoy |
Autor: | Joseph Roth, Ausgabe vom März 2006, Gebunden, Verkaufsrang 84928 |
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