The Radetzky March: A Novel

by Joseph Roth

Overview

“Epic . . . brilliantly achieved.” (New York Times Book Review)

The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth’s classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-Hungarian Empire just before World War I.

The author’s greatest achievement, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such a universal story for our times.

This is a high-quality edition featuring an introduction from Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer and translated by the acclaimed Joachim Neugroschel, who was the winner of three PEN Translation Awards.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781585673261
Publisher:	The Overlook Press
Publication date:	08/01/2002
Series:	Works of Joseph Roth
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	307,646
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.75(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the eastern borders of the Hapsburg Empire. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. He died in Paris in 1939, leaving behind 13 novels, including The Radetzky March (1932), as well as many stories and essays.

Editorial Reviews

A nostalgic yet deeply moving portrait of a decaying civilization.

The Federalist (named a Notable Book of the year)

One of the best books I've ever read. This is one I'll be thinking about for a long time. . . . The story it tells is a universal one . . . It is a story about the effect of time on all human institutions and ways of seeing the world. It's impossible to readRadetzkywithout wondering if our own liberal democratic institutions and ways of ordering our experiences are declining as surely as the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . . .This is going to be a book that takes time to absorb. I cannot recommend it to you strongly enough.”

Rod Dreher - The American Conservative

Deeply moving . . . in terms of an evocation of a certain mindset and a certain feeling of estrangement, it's really great.

Jennifer Szalai - The Book Review podcast by the New York Times

Epic . . . brilliantly achieved.

The New York Times

One of the most readable, poignant, and superb novels in twentieth-century German: it stands with the best of Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, and Robert Musil.

Harold Bloom

A masterpiece . . . The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragédie humaineachieved in the techniques of modern fiction. No other contemporary writer, not excepting Thomas Mann, has come close to achieving the wholeness . . . that Lukács cites as our impossible aim.”

Nadine Gordimer

One of the most readable, poignant, and superb novels in twentieth-century German: it stands with the best of Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, and Robert Musil. Roth was a cultural monument of Galician Jewry: ironic, compassionate, perfectly pitched to his catastrophic era.”
—HAROLD BLOOM

“A masterpiece . . . The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragédie humaine
Achieved in the techniques of modern fiction.”
—NADINE GORDIMER

“Epic . . . brilliantly achieved . . . the portrait of an empty age, an age of gold braid and glitter.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES

“It is hard to praise this novel sufficiently . . . [It] is exceptional for . . . the tolerance and pity and humorous magnanimity with which the author regards his characters.”
—CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

With a new introduction by Alan Bance

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