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La marcia di radetsky è uno studio sottile e toccante della vita familiare alla fine dell'impero austro-ungarico. Scrivendo nella forma tradizionale della saga familiare, roth riesce comunque a portare alla sua storia un modo completamente individuale che dà allo stesso tempo il ritratto dettagliato e intimo di una vita e il panorama più ampio di una dinastia in declino. Non ancora molto noto nei paesi di lingua inglese, joseph roth è uno degli scrittori austriaci più illustri del nostro secolo, degno di essere messo tra parentesi con musil e kraus.

Joseph Roth, Austrian-Jewish novelist, was born in 1894 near Lemberg in Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, now in Ukraine. He studied at Vienna University and in the years following World War I worked in Vienna, Berlin and Munich as a journalist, mostly for left-wing publications, which involved him in extensive European travel. He also began to write novels. For most of his life he had no fixed abode, preferring hotel rooms and writing at café tables. In 1932 his masterpiece, The Radetzky March, was published. In 1933 when Hitler came to power his position became dangerous and he moved to Paris; his books were amongst those burnt by the Nazis that year. He continued to travel and to write, but began to suffer poor health - partly as a result of alcoholism. He died prematurely in 1939.