The Radetzky March - Brossura

Roth, Joseph

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847086144 ISBN 13: 9781847086143

Casa editrice: Granta Books, 2013

Riassunto

The Radetzky March is a meditation on the Austro-Hungarian Empire through the prism of three generations of the Trotta family. The novel opens in 1859 at the Battle of Solferino, when the young Lieutenant Trotta saves the life of the Emperor and is ennobled. He owes the Empire everything, and his son also becomes a conscientious servant of the great multinational state even as it enters into its period of chaos, with competing nationalisms and ideologies tearing it apart. The final generation of Trottas cannot comprehend or survive the collapse of the Empire, which no longer has any purchase on reality. Beginning at the moment when the Habsburg dominions began to crumble, and ending at the moment when the old Emperor's body is finally entombed in the vault of Capuchins in Vienna, the narrative arc of Roth's novel is perfectly judged. However, it is Roth's intelligent compassion and ironic sense of history that confer on The Radetzky March its greatness.

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Recensione

'Roth is Austria's Chekhov. The same amused contemplation of the follies and absurdities of the human condition, the same stoic resignation and refusal to judge. A great, wise, droll, European novel set in Austro-Hungary just before the debacle of the First World War.' --'Best Books' chosen by William Boyd, The Week

'Timeless... I re-read this book every two or three years, captivated anew by its low-key melancholia and its wry take on the human predicament' --'Top Summer Reads' chosen by William Boyd, Mail on Sunday

L'autore

JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany and he died in poverty in Paris. His books include What I Saw, Job, The White Cities, The Emperor's Tomb, and The String of Pearls, all published by Granta Books.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Granta Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1847086144
• ISBN 13: 9781847086143
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile