Joseph Roth
Austrian novelist and journalist of Jewish descent, noted for his interwar fiction and reportage about the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; best known for The Radetzky March and Job.
Books
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1. La Marcia Di Radetzky
A melancholy, multi-generational portrait of a family whose fortunes track the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: after a grandfather is celebrated for saving the emperor in battle and is ennobled, his descendants cling to rigid duty and blind loyalty, slowly losing vitality, honor and identity. Personal tragedies and small humiliations accumulate until the family's disintegration mirrors the empire's collapse, offering a meditation on fate, honor, and the corrosive effects of unquestioning obedience.
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