The Radetzky March
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Engelsk
Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his enoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an administration whose failure ...
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Forlagsbeskrivelse af The Radetzky March af Joseph Roth
Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his enoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an administration whose failure he can neither comprehend nor survive; the third for the family standards of conduct which he cannot attain but against which he is unable to rebel. NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 ''Sublime . . it inspires a kind of evangelical cult passion among its devotees'' Simon Schama''Roth is Austria''s Chekhov'' William Boyd Strauss''s Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe''s most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth''s account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918. Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his enoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an administration whose failure he can neither comprehend nor survive; the third for the family standards of conduct which he cannot attain but against which he is too enfeebled to rebel.
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Classics
ISBN
9780141393421
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
368
Udgivelsesdato
28-01-2016
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3319091
EAN nr.
9780141393421
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
200
Bredde (mm)
131
Længde (mm)
26
Vægt (g)
270