The Legend Of The Holy Drinker

The Legend Of The Holy Drinker

by Joseph Roth and Frans Masereel
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/05/2022

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This novella, one of the most haunting things that Joseph Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the 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. Rather, it is a secular miracle-tale, in which the vagrant Andreas, after living under bridges, has a surprising run of good luck that changes his circumstances profoundly. The novella is extraordinarily compressed, dry-eyed and witty, despite its melancholic subject matter.

ISBN:
9781847086198
9781847086198
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-05-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Granta Publications
Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist.

On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany for Paris, where he died in poverty a few years later. His books include What I Saw, Job, The White Cities, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books.

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