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Weights and Measures

Roth, Joseph
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780241307441
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Classics
Vekt
91 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
7 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
112

Forfatter
Roth, Joseph

Biographical note

Joseph Roth was born in 1894 into a Jewish family living in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and now split between Poland and Ukraine. He became a successful journalist and travelled widely, eventually becoming best-known for his novels The Radetzky March (also in Penguin Modern Classics), The Emperor's Tomb and The Legend of the Holy Drinker . He died in Paris in 1939.

Weights and Measures

Roth, Joseph
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
Roth, Joseph
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
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This small novel is a masterpiece

- Angela Huth, Listener

Weights and Measures gave me the purest reading pleasure... A haunting little book, touched by genius

Guardian

A masterly performance

- Paul Bailey, Evening Standard

Se alle

An absorbing fable, dark, beautifully written and with a physical immediacy in the prose... I want to read more

New Statesman

Written with the melancholy wit and grace of Gogol... passages of electrifying beauty

The Times

'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one'At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschütz leaves his beloved Austro-Hungarian army and takes up a civilian post, as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a remote backwater near the Russian border. At first he does everything by the book, but gradually he finds himself adrift in a world of petty corruption, bribery and drunkenness - and undone by his passion for the beautiful gypsy Euphemia. A haunting evocation of Eastern Europe's borderlands in the early twentieth century, Weights and Measures is also the story of the disintegration of a good man.Translated by David Le Vay
Les mer
A short, brilliantly evocative novel set in the bleak eastern European borderlands before the First World War.

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This small novel is a masterpiece

- Angela Huth, Listener

Weights and Measures gave me the purest reading pleasure... A haunting little book, touched by genius

Guardian

A masterly performance

- Paul Bailey, Evening Standard

Se alle

An absorbing fable, dark, beautifully written and with a physical immediacy in the prose... I want to read more

New Statesman

Written with the melancholy wit and grace of Gogol... passages of electrifying beauty

The Times

'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one'At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschütz leaves his beloved Austro-Hungarian army and takes up a civilian post, as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a remote backwater near the Russian border. At first he does everything by the book, but gradually he finds himself adrift in a world of petty corruption, bribery and drunkenness - and undone by his passion for the beautiful gypsy Euphemia. A haunting evocation of Eastern Europe's borderlands in the early twentieth century, Weights and Measures is also the story of the disintegration of a good man.Translated by David Le Vay
Les mer
A short, brilliantly evocative novel set in the bleak eastern European borderlands before the First World War.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780241307441
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Classics
Vekt
91 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
7 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
112

Forfatter
Roth, Joseph

Biographical note

Joseph Roth was born in 1894 into a Jewish family living in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and now split between Poland and Ukraine. He became a successful journalist and travelled widely, eventually becoming best-known for his novels The Radetzky March (also in Penguin Modern Classics), The Emperor's Tomb and The Legend of the Holy Drinker . He died in Paris in 1939.

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