The legend of the holy drinker
It is a deeply symbolic and melancholic work that explores themes such as redemption, guilt, death, and loneliness, all through the story of a tragic and multi-faceted character.
The story follows...
ROTH, Joseph
The white cities
A refined text that begins with a reflection on the profound moral consequences of World War I, before leading us on a journey through various cities in Southern Europe. Written in an elegant style, filled...
The Radetzky March
This novel chronicles three generations of men in the Trotta family: the Slovenian grandfather, a humble man of peasant stock made a noble for a heroic deed done almost by accident; his son, a powerful...
The Emperor's Tomb
Trotta is the descendant of a humble Slovenian family, which has ascended to the nobility of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At the dawn of the First World War, he led a light and unoccupied life with her...
Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters
Roth, one of the emblematic writers of Central European literature in the first half of the 20th century, had an extensive correspondence, estimated at around five thousand letters, although only the five...
Right and Left
In this novel, Joseph Roth, with his dry and precise style, often compared to that of Stendhal, offers the reader a disillusioned and insightful panorama of Central Europe, spanning from the early 20th...
Tarabas: A Guest on Earth
Tarabas (1934) is one of Joseph Roth's last novels, written during his exile in Paris. In this work, Roth tells the story of a man named Tarabas, a charismatic and energetic individual who seems destined...
April
An unnamed character, in an unidentified city, falls in love with a mysterious young woman while maintaining a relationship with a single mother: this is the premise of this brief story. Roth presents here...