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Joseph Roth Brody 2 Sept. 1894 - Paris 27 May 1939 • Austrian novelist full text search: the ledge - flash version* *
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ON JOSEPH ROTH'S BOOKSHELF The Red and the Black Stendhal, 1830 The rise and fall of Julian Sorel. Born into peasantry, he connives his way into aristocratic circles, but his powers of seduction lead to his downfall when he commits a crime of passion. Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol, 1842 In this quintessentially Russian novel, the reader follows Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant turned con-man, through the countryside in pursuit of his shady enterprise. Anna Karenina Leo N. Tolstoy, 1877 Anna Karenina abandons her empty existence as a society wife and embarks on a doomed love affair with the passionate but emotionally bankrupt Vronsky. The Idiot Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky, 1868 The saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanitorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power and sexual conquest. Cousin Bette Honoré de Balzac, 1847 The story of the Hulot family. Risen to eminence under Napoleon 1, their aristocratic values leave them bewildered and vulnerable in the money-ridden burgeois Paris of the 1840s. It is also the story of Bette herself, the poor relation whose patient malice finally leads to their demise. Selected Writings Karl Kraus, The Stone Breakers and Other Novellas Ferdinand von Saar, 1876-1877 Five novellas by the 19th-century Austrian writer Ferdinand von Saar on the theme of love and sensuality. Lieutenant Gustl Arthur Schnitzler, 1901 Viennese author Schnitzler's brief 1901 novel depicts the Austrian crisis at the turn of the century and the impending collapse of the dream of the empire.	BOOKS BY JOSEPH ROTH: The Radetzky March 1932 The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the rise and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.	WHAT TO READ AFTER THE RADETZKY MARCH? AUSTRIA-HUNGARY The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War Jaroslav Hasek, 1920-1923 The deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army - dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I (where he is captured by his own troops). Embers Sándor Márai, 1942 At a castle in the Carpathian moutains, two men meet for the first time in 41 years, having spent their lives waiting for this moment. Decades earlier an event - something to do with a betrayal and a woman - led to the friends separation but as their lives draw to a close the truth is revealed. The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil, 1930 Ulrich has no qualities in the sense that his self-awareness is completely divorced from his abilities. He is drawn into a project, the 'Parallel Campaign,' to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph's coronation in 1918. CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIAN DECLINE The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek, 1983 Erika Kohut, a 40-year-old is a piano teacher who still lives with her mother. While her mother waits up for her, Erika trawls the seedy side of contemporary Vienna, visiting porn shows and peep shows. Her Jekyll and Hyde existence is disturbed by a handsome young piano student. The Story of My Baldness Marek van der Jagt, 2000 Viennese teenager Marek, a studious type prone to dour remarks, struggles under the burdens of an overbearing mother, a distant father, and a perilously small penis. Cutting Timber Thomas Bernhard, 1984 Thomas Bernhard's novel of life amid the art and theatre society of Vienna and London. The Third Man Graham Greene, 1950 Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates... FAMILIES IN DECLINE The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958 A bitter-sweet tale of quiet lives in the small and apparently timeless world of mid-19th-century Sicilian nobility. Through the eyes of his princely protagonist, the author chronicles the details of an aristocratic, pastoral society, torn apart by revolution, death and decay. Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh, 1945 An unexpected wartime return to Brideshead, home of Sebastian Flyte and his eccentric family, causes Charles Ryder to reflect on their carefree undergraduate days. Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann, 1901 This story of a prosperous Hanseatic family and their gradual disintegration is also a portrayal of the transition from the stable bourgeois life of the 19th century to a modern uncertainty. KINDRED (VIENNESE) SPIRITS The Sleepwalkers: A Trilogy Hermann Broch, 1931-1932 Three novels depicting Europe between 1888 and 1918 (The Romantic, The Anarchist, The Realist). Broch's epic trilogy of daily life in Germany established him as an important modernist innovator. The Pure in Heart Franz Werfel, 1929 The story of a man who has never gotten over his childhood love and need for his nurse. Beware of Pity Stefan Zweig, 1938 In 1913, a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible dangers of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance-his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope.
	Hotel Savoy 1924
	The Flight Without End 1927
	Job: The Story of a Simple Man 1930
	Weights and Measures 1937
	The Emperor's Tomb 1938
	The Tale of the 1002nd Night 1939
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