num_pages: 27
description: This book, one of the most haunting things that Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the year the author died. Like Andreas, the hero of the story, Roth drank himself to death in Paris, but this is not an autobiographical confession. It is a secular miracle-tale, in which the vagrant Andreas, after living under bridges, has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of existence. The novella is extraordinarily compressed, dry-eyed and witty, despite its melancholic subject-matter.
language: German
title: KiWi Taschenbücher, Nr.27, Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker
titlecomplete: KiWi Taschenbücher, Nr.27, Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker (German Edition)
characters: Andreas
genres: Classics, Short Stories, Modern Classics, Novella, Novels, German Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 5122
places: Paris
publisher: Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH & Co KG