Wandering Jew E-Book

Dennis Marks

• Herausgeber: Notting Hill Editions
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Joseph Roth, whose many novels included The Radetsky March, was one of the most enigmatic writers of the twentieth century. He was a perpetual traveller, a prophet, and a compulsive liar. Dennis Marks makes a journey through the eastern borderlands of Europe to uncover the truth about Roth's lost world.

Leseprobe

During his long and distinguished career in film and broadcasting, Dennis Marks made documentaries on cultural subjects ranging from Janáček to Russian history. During the 1990s, he was General Director of English National Opera. His search for Joseph Roth grew out of his acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series on the Habsburg Empire, Faultline. He died in April, 2015

‘This is history at its most vivid.’ The Times

Dennis Marks

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WANDERING JEW

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The Search for Joseph Roth

Contents

– Title Page –– Map – – 1: ‘A Man Seeks His Fatherland’ –– 2: Kakania and the Emperor’s Bust –– 3: Extra-territorial –– 4: Menuchim’s Song –– 5: The End of the World –– Selected Works by Joseph Roth –– About the Publisher –– Other titles from Notting Hill Editions –– Copyright –

– WANDERING JEW –

One

– ‘A Man Seeks His Fatherland’ –

He keeps disappearing. Ten years ago I thought that I had found him, on the wrong side of the tracks in the little town of Brody, on the dusty eastern edge of Europe, where the Empire of the Habsburgs once dissolved into the Empire of the Romanovs. I had come to Brody at the end of a fitful eight-week journey along the boundaries of that Empire, across Austria to the fringes of Italy, down into former Yugoslavia and through Hungary and Romania to the muddy marches of Western Ukraine. I was keeping a bargain I had made with myself thirty years earlier.