6 Novels by Joseph Roth
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Overview: Joseph Roth (1894-1939): Prolific political journalist and novelist Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the eastern borders of the Habsburg Empire. From 1916 to 1918 he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army, a period of his life shrouded in uncertainty during which he later claimed to have spent some months in Russian captivity. He then worked as a journalist in Vienna, Berlin and Frankfurt, covering events in Europe. In 1933 he left Germany and lived mainly in Paris and the south of France. He was one of the central figures in the émigré intellectual opposition to the Nazis. His was nevertheless the life of a fugitive; often unable to find a publisher for his books and beset by poverty, loneliness and despair, he died of the effects of alcoholism in 1939. Joseph Roth wrote thirteen novels, as well as many stories and essays. haunted by never having known his father, who had become insane before his birth and died in 1910 in Russia, he frequently explored the relationship between father and son in his writings. This theme is interwoven with the experiences of war and anti-Semitism: Flight Without End (1927) is the story of a disillusioned officer returning home; and Job (1930) is the moving portrait of a modern wandering Jew. The Radetzky March (1932), a remarkable chronicle of the decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire, was followed by a sequel, The Emperor’s Tomb (1938), which continues the story up to the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Hitler’s Germany. Roth is now recognized, along with Thomas Mann, Proust and Joyce, as one of the greatest writers in modern literature.
Genre: Fiction/Classics
Radetzky March: Strauss’s Radetzky March I, signature tune of one of Europe’s most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth’s account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918. Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his enoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an administration whose failure he can neither comprehend nor survive; the third for the family standards of conduct which he cannot attain but against which he is too enfeebled to rebel.
The Silent Prophet: The Silent Prophet, first published in Germany in 1966 as Der Stumme Prophet, is one of Joseph Roth’s most characteristic and revealing works. It is also something of a problem novel in that the manuscript was never revised or prepared for publication in the author’s lifetime and did not appear in its present form until twenty-seven years after his death.
Hotel Savoy: Still bearing scars from the gulag, a freed POW wanders across Russia to an industrial town in Eastern Europe. In its massive Hotel Savoy, he meets a surreal case of characters – the dancer Stasia, a former factory owner obsessed with winning the lottery, and a host of cigar-puffing plutocrats and Slav revolutionaries – waiting in vain for something to happen: the return from America of a tycoon named Bloomfield. Like Europe itself in 1932, the hotel is the stage upon which characters follow fate to its tragic destination.
Job: It is the tale of Mendel Singer, a pious, destitute Russian Jew and children’s Torah teacher whose faith is tested at every turn. His youngest son seems to be incurably disabled, one of his older sons joins the Russian Army, the other deserts to America, and his daughter is running around with a Cossack. When he flees to America with his wife and daughter, further blows of fate await him. In this modern fable based on the biblical story of Job, Mendel Singer witnesses the collapse of his world, experiences unbearable suffering and loss, and ultimately gives up hope and curses God, only to be saved by a miraculous reversal of fortune. Born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the border of the Hapsburg Empire, Joseph Roth, author of more than fifteen novels, was one of the central figures of the emigre intellectual opposition to the Nazis. Roth is among the greatest Central European writers of the twentieth century.
The Emperors Tomb: The Emperor’s Tomb — in German Die Kapuzinergruft, “The Crypt of the Capuchins” (the eerie underground burial place of the Habsburgs on the Neuer Markt in the middle of Vienna), and before that variously “The Cup of Life” and “A Man Seeks His Fatherland” — was the last novel Joseph Roth wrote, and the last he actually saw in print, in December 1938 or January 1939.As a sequel, it is a study in complementarity, but also in contrasts. It is a novel of mothers and marriages where The Radetzky March is strictly patrilineal. The Radetzky March begins and ends with scenes of battle (Solferino and Krasne-Busk), The Emperor’s Tomb runs from the eve of one war to the eve of the next, from 1913 to 1938.
Perlefter: Now available for the first time in English, this important addition to the Roth canon is rich in irony and exemplary of Roth’s keen powers of social and political observation
A novel fragment that was discovered among Joseph Roth’s papers decades after his death, this book chronicles the life and times of Alexander Perlefter, the well-to-do Austrian urbanite with whom his relative, a small-town narrator, Naphthali Kroj, has come to live after becoming orphaned. The colorful cast of characters includes Perlefter’s four children: foolish Alfred, with his predilection for sleeping with servant girls and widows and boasting of the venereal diseases he contracts; the hapless Karoline, whose interest in math and physics and employment at a scientific institute seem to repel serious suitors; the flamboyant Julie, a sweet, pale, and anemic girl who likes any man who is inclined toward marriage; and the beautiful and flighty Margarete, besotted with a professor of history….
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