The Radetzky March
A European Literature, Classics, Historical book. The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf...
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- Pages: 319 pages
- ISBN: 9780879511890 / 879511893
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Lieutenant Trotta wasn't experienced enough to know that uncouth peasant boys with noble hearts exist in real life and that a lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written. Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March // The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply. Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March // In those days before the Great War when the events narrated in this book took place, it had not yet become a matter of indifference whether a man lived or died. When one of the living had been extinguished another did not at once take his place in order to obliterate him: there was a gap where he had been, and both close and distant witnesses of his demise fell silent whenever they became aware of his gap. When fire had eaten away a house from the row of others in a street, the burnt-out space remained long empty. Masons worked slowly and cautiously....
Es mi primer Joseph Roth y me alegro de haber comenzado por La marcha Radetzky (1932), uno de los hitos de la narrativa en lengua alemana. Joseph Roth era tan autocrtico que, al terminar esta novela, no estaba satisfecho con el resultado, y ni siquiera su buen amigo Stefan Zweig logr convencerle de que haba escrito una obra maestra.... After reading consecutively Nabokov's Ada and then Beckett's Molloy and Malone Dies, it was very nice to fall back into a book where the prose is so restrained, so gently laid down, so musical, so functional while still, in each paragraph, maintaining lovely poetic arcs. This was a slow, elegiac novel about the disintegration of the... Joseph Roth was an Austrian novelist who was born in 1894 and died of chronic alcoholism in Paris in 1939.This novel begins on a decidedly ironic note when the Kaiser knights a young Austro-Hungarian soldier, Trotta, for allegedly saving the Kaisers life, thereby creating a vast gulf between the soldier and his family and friends by...
