Books by Joseph Roth

An unforgettable portrait of the Austro-Hungarian author of The Radetzky March, this biography in letters - selected here for the first time by Michael Hofmann - is classic European literature at its finest

Set in Vienna in the early part of the twentieth century, Zipper and His Father is Joseph Roth's compelling and wonderfully atmospheric portrayal of a childhood friend, Arnold Zipper, and his father, as seen through the eyes of a young boy.

Set in the early days of the Russian Revolution, Tarabas tells the story of Nicholas Tarabas, a young revolutionary ignominously dispatched from St Petersburg to New York by his outraged family.

Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages to bring to his story a completely individual manner which gives at the same time the detailed and intimate portrait of a life and the wider panorama of a failing dynasty.

In The Spider's Web, his first novel, Roth paints a chillingly realistic picture of the conspiracies of the radical right that were to undermine the Weimar Republic and pave the way for Hitler and National Socialism.

RADETZKYMARCH, er fortællekunst af fineste karat. Med lidenskab, indsigt og medfølelse levendegør Joseph Roth det østrig-ungarske kejserdømmes sidste dage.RADETZKYMARCH er Roths berømte ironisk-nostalgiske roman en om den slovenske familie Trottas liv gennem tre generationer. Fra midten af det 19. århundrede over 1. verdenskrig og til det østrig-ungarske kejserdømmes nedgang og fald. Bogen udkommer i Rosinantes klassikerserie og har forord af Kristian Ditlev Jensen. Pressen skriver:»Roth er en forfatter, der kan kombinere de store episke linjer med sansevækkende detaljeskildringer. Han kan panorere over felttog og folkemængder i farvestærke skildringer af multikulturel brogethed, han kan zoome ind på en dråbe af væske fra kejserens næse, han kan lade os føle mikroklimaskiftene på en kvindeskulder.«– Lilian Munk Rösing, Information