The Emperor's Tomb
Joseph Roth
(Author)
Michael Hofmann
(Translator)
Description
The Emperor's Tomb - the last novel Joseph Roth wrote - is a haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a magically evocative paean to the passing of time and the loss of hope. The Emperor's Tomb runs from 1913 to 1938, from the eve of one world war to the eve of the next, from disaster to disaster. Striped with beauty and written in short propulsive chapters - full of upheavals, reversals and abrupt twists of plot - the novel powerfully sketches a time of change and loss. Prophetic and regretful, intuitive and exact, Roth tells of one man's foppish, sleepwalking, spoiled youth and then his struggle to come to terms with the uncongenial society of post-First World War Vienna, financial ruin, and the first intimations of Nazi barbarities.Product Details
Price
$15.95
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
April 22, 2013
Pages
208
Dimensions
5.2 X 8.1 X 0.6 inches | 0.45 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811221276
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About the Author
Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the eastern borders of the Hapsburg Empire. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. He died in Paris in 1939, leaving behind thirteen novels as well as many stories and essays.
Dr. Yasemin Dayoglu-Yucel ist DAAD-Lektorin an der Istanbul Universitat. Prof. Dr. Michael Hofmann lehrt und forscht an der Universitat Paderborn. Prof. Dr. Seyda Ozil (Universitat Istanbul) arbeitet als Linguistin schwerpunktmassig zu deutsch-turkisch-kontrastiven Themen.
