Joseph Roth, Author Overlook Press $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87951-361-0
These novellas portray Germany between the wars. In the first, anti-Semitic and anti-Communist WW I veteran Theodore Lohse devotes himself to an underground terrorist network; the latter recalls the Weimar Republic and German cinema of the '20s. (Dec
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Joseph Roth, Author, Michael Hofmann, Translator, Katharina Ochse, Selected by , trans. from the German and with an intro. by Michael Hofmann. Norton $24.95 (301p) ISBN 978-0-393-05145-2
Joseph Roth was a master of the feuilleton,
the genre that, always in highly individual fashion, comprises some mix of travelogue, reportage, short story and cultural and political commentary. The genre truly flourished in the 1920s and, more...
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Joseph Roth, edited and trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Norton, $39.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-393-06064-5
Prolific, peripatetic, prickly, and best known in his time as a journalist, Joseph Roth (1894–1939) has since taken his place beside Thomas Mann (whom he loathed), Robert Musil (whom he disliked almost as much), and Alfred Döblin among the giants of
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Joseph Roth, trans. from the German by Michael Hoffmann. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2127-6
In his final novel Roth retreads much of the narrative and thematic ground covered by his earlier works, notably Radetsky March. An elegy to the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, this novel follows Franz Ferdinand Trotta, a young Viennese fop,
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Joseph Roth, edited and trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2487-1
Roth (1894–1939) might be best remembered for novels such as The Radetzky March, but this collection of short newspaper pieces shows that his literary skill extended far beyond the fictional worlds he created. The selections, most written in the...
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Joseph Roth, Author, Michael Hormann, Translator, Michael Hofmann, Translator Overlook Press $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-87951-448-8
A master of modern fiction who fled Nazi Germany and died in France in 1939, Roth is in top form in these two works. First published in 1929, Right and Left , set in 1920s Berlin, is a remarkably prescient novella prefiguring the collapse of...
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Joseph Roth, Author, Michael Hofmann, Translator , trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Norton $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-04320-4
Belatedly recognized in this country, but long acclaimed in Europe for such brilliant, classic novels as The Radetzky March, Roth died in 1939 in the early days of WWII. The 17 stories in this collection display his diverse but sometimes erratic...
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Joseph Roth, Author, Michael Hofmann, Translator Overlook Press $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87951-373-3
The tin-whistle dream of drunks and vagabonds comes true in a magical novella, the last work of an anti-fascist writer self-exiled to France from his native Silesia. Roth's ( The Radetzky March ) protagonist, an alcoholic vagrant named Andreas who...
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Joseph Roth, Author, Michael Hofmann, Translator St. Martin's Press $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-19341-6
A master fabulist and linguistic architect, Roth (1884-1939) examines the cultural crucible of fin de si cle Vienna through the eyes of his protagonist, the Persian monarch Shah-in-Shah. Seen this way, Roth's Vienna is, as the novelist Hermann...
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Joseph Roth, Author, John Hoare, Translator Overlook Press $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-87951-211-8
Released from a Russian POW camp at the end of WW I, a former soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army puts up at the gigantic Hotel Savoy on his way home. He tells the beautiful Stasia that he wanted to be a writer but the war intervened and now he...
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Joseph Roth, Author, Joseph Roth, Other Overlook Press $18.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-87951-275-0
An outsize figure in the mode of folklore, protagonist Nicholas Tarabas fills the entire narrative space of this novel, first published in 1934, one of a large legacy of works left on the author's death in 1939, at the age of 45, while in exile from
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