"Andreas Pum, having lost his leg in the war, is rewarded with a permit to support himself by playing a barrel organ in the streets. At first the simple-minded veteran is entirely satisfied with his lot, and he even finds a widow to marry. But then a quarrel on a tram turns Andreas's life onto a rapid downward trajectory. As he loses first his beggar's permit, then his new wife, and even his freedom, he is finally provoked into rejecting his blind faith in the benevolence of the powers that govern his life"--Inside jacket.
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Höhe: 208 mm
Breite: 130 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-0-593-53412-0 (9780593534120)
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JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939) was an Austrian novelist, essayist, journalist, and publisher. An outspoken critic of Hitler and militarism, he moved to Paris in 1933. Roth's novels include
What I Saw, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Right and Left, The Emperor's Tomb, The String of Pearls, and
The Radetzky March, an ironic portrait of the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is considered to be his masterpiece.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: Michael Hofmann is a German-born poet who writes in English. He has translated the works of Brecht, Kafka, Fallada, and Roth, and teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
ABOUT THE INTRODUCER: Carolin Duttlinger is a professor of German at Oxford University, specializing in German literature, culture, and film. She is co-director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre.
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