Understanding Joseph Roth
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781570033988
Subjects: Biography: general; Cultural studies; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; German Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; German; Europe; European - German; Criticism and interpretation; European - General; 1894-1939; Roth, Joseph,
First sentence: By 30 January 1933, the day Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, the Austrian-born writer Joseph Roth had published seven novels as well as two books of essays and feuilletons and was one of the most highly reputed journalists of his time.
Description: "Described as a "Jew in search of a fatherland" and a "wanderer in flight toward a tragic end," the Austrian writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939) spent his life in pursuit of a national and cultural identity and his final years writing in fervent opposition to the Third Reich. In this introduction to Roth's novels, which include Job and The Radetzky March, Sidney Rosenfeld demonstrates how the experience of homelessness not only shaped Roth's life but also decisively defined his body of work.

Rosenfeld suggests that more than any other component of Roth's varied fiction, his skillful portrayals of uprootedness and the search for home explain his international appeal, which has grown in recent decades with the translation of his novels into English."--BOOK JACKET.