- Published: 17/10/2002
- ISBN: 9781862075382
- 130x20mm
- 256 pages
The Collected Shorter Fiction Of Joseph Roth
Joseph Roth
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Jospeh Roth is a modern master of the laconic, emblematic narrative – an artist responding to the madness of inter-war Europe with an unsentimental humanism. His prose is quick, lucid and ironic; his fictions read like realist fables. Beneath these polished surfaces there are darker currents – of violence, hatred, racism and personal loss – that cannot be ignored. Granta Books here presents Roth’s collected stories and novellas in new translations by the poet Michael Hofmann. They include ‘Fallermayr the Stationmaster’ and ‘The Bust of the Emperor’, bitter comedies of the last days of the Hapsburgs; ‘Strawberries’, the story of a small town in Galicia; and many other astonishing shorter fictions.
£6.99
Roth is one of the great addictive writers of the first half of the twentieth century. He is witty, profound, surprising and melancholy. The paradox is this: no one is fundamentally more pessimistic; no writer is more affirmative
Scotsman
The poet Michael Hofmann has performed such an invaluable service that it's a shame that the minting of medals has gone out of fashion
Evening Standard
[These stories and novellas] clearly illustrate the qualities that make his prose so distinctive