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On the End of the World [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 128 pages, kõrgus x laius: 198x129 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2019
  • Kirjastus: Pushkin Press
  • ISBN-10: 1782274766
  • ISBN-13: 9781782274766
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 128 pages, kõrgus x laius: 198x129 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2019
  • Kirjastus: Pushkin Press
  • ISBN-10: 1782274766
  • ISBN-13: 9781782274766
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A powerful collection written on the eve of the destruction of Europe by the Second World War, by the great Joseph Roth

Having fled to Paris in January 1933, on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany, Joseph Roth wrote a series of articles in that 'hour before the end of the world', that he foresaw was coming and which would see the full horror of Hitler's barbarism, the Second World War and most crucially for Roth, the final irreversible destruction of a pan European consciousness.

Incisive and ironic, the writing evokes Roth's bitterness, frustration and morbid despair at the coming annihilation of the free world while displaying his great nostalgia for the Hapsburg Empire into which he was born and his ingrained fear of nationalism in any form.

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"Will Stones translation of Roths writings of the 1930s, On the End of the World . . . is a radiant book."  Morten Høi Jensen at LitHub

"Roth is Austria's Chekhov." -- William Boyd

Introduction vii
The Dream of a Carnival Night
3(3)
Exchange of Children
6(3)
The Death of German Literature
9(3)
The Third Reich - Agency of Hell on Earth
12(3)
National Pyromania
15(3)
God in Germany
18(2)
In Lieu of an Article
20(4)
Pitiless Combat
24(2)
Europe Is Only Possible Without the Third Reich
26(3)
The Myth of the German Soul
29(4)
Requiem Mass
33(3)
Orator of Apocalypse
36(5)
Letter to a Governor
41(2)
The Vienna Prater
43(3)
The Inexpressible
46(3)
The Muzzling of German Writers
49(2)
Rest While Viewing the Demolition
51(3)
When Heroes Tremble
54(3)
In the Bistro after Midnight
57(4)
Proof of Ancestry in the Isolation Cell
61(3)
Exhibition
64(3)
A Truly Free City
67(2)
Our Homeland, our Epoch
69(3)
The Fall of Austria
72(1)
The Execution of Austria
73(5)
From the Black and Yellow Journal - 12-13th March 1939
78(3)
Joseph Roth in Paris - A Seasonal Chronology (1933-39) 81(12)
Notes 93(8)
Biographical notes 101
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was an Austrian novelist best known for his family saga The Radetzky March and for his novel of Jewish life, Job. He fought in the Austrian army in the First World War, and worked as a novelist and journalist in Frankfurt, becoming a leading Jewish intellectual of the era. With the rise of Nazism, he lived the rest of his life in exile.