The Legend of The Holy Drinker
of Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann (translator)
Description
This book, one of the most haunting things that Joseph Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the same year the author died. Like Andreas, the hero of the story, Roth drank himself to death in Paris, but this is not an autobiographical confession. It is a secular miracle-tale, in which the vagrant Andreas, after living under bridges, has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of existence. The novella is extraordinarily compressed, dry-eyed and witty, despite its melancholic subject-matter.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 100 pages
- Publisher Granta Books
- Publication Date October 16th 2001
- First Publication 1939
- Language English
- ISBN 9781862074712
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Paris (France)']
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