- Published: 28/06/2000
- ISBN: 9781862073630
- 129x20mm
- 256 pages
Rebellion
Joseph Roth
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Rebellion is the story of Great War veteran Andreas Pum, who loses a leg and gains a medal. He marries, plays a barrel organ and is happy. But hen he is imprisoned after a fight, life seems unbearably altered. 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.
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Brilliantly observed and icily concise ... Rebellion makes one eager to take the translator's advice and read the rest of Roth's oeuvre
Sunday Times
Roth's writing, in this fine translation by the poet Michael Hoffmann, is unambiguous, direct, his story told with the simplicity of a fable, though suffused with period detail and a poignant awareness of morality's steady step