'One of the greatest novels ever written' - Philippe Sands
Set during the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family, tracing their rise and fall over three generations. Theirs is a sweeping history of heroism and duty, desire and compromise, tragedy and heartbreak, a story that lasts until the darkening eve of WWI, when all is set to fall apart.
A rich and luminous masterpiece, moving, compassionate, witty and dramatic, The Radetzky March is one of the great reading pleasures of 20th-century literature.
'One of the greatest novels ever written' - Philippe Sands
Set during the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family, tracing their rise and fall over three generations. Theirs is a sweeping history of heroism and duty, desire and compromise, tragedy and heartbreak, a story that lasts until the darkening eve of WWI, when all is set to fall apart.
A rich and luminous masterpiece, moving, compassionate, witty and dramatic, The Radetzky March is one of the great reading pleasures of 20th-century literature.
Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family.
JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939) was a prolific journalist and novelist. One
of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, his work traces the
decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the rising fascist
threat in Europe. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged
to leave Germany for Paris, where he died in poverty a few years
later. His books include What I Saw, Job, The White Cities, The
String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta
Books.
MICHAEL HOFMANN is the highly acclaimed translator of Joseph Roth,
Franz Kafka, Hans Fallada, Bertolt Brecht, and many more. A poet
and essayist, he also teaches at the University of Florida.
One of the greatest novels ever written, Joseph Roth tells us who
we are, and what we might yet become. Timeless, humane, tragic
*Philippe Sands*
For sheer, epic sweep, I love reading The Radetzky March by Joseph
Roth, set in imperial Vienna. I can't recommend it highly
enough
*Jeremy Paxman*
Timeless... I re-read this book every two or three years,
captivated anew by its low-key melancholia and its wry take on the
human predicament
*Mail on Sunday*
He saw, he listened, he understood. The Radetzky March is a dark,
disturbing novel of eccentric beauty... If you have yet to
experience Roth, begin here, and then read everything
*Irish Times*
Roth weds epic sweep and scope to irony, pathos and keen wit,
sustained across glorious set-pieces... Michael Hofmann's dazzling
translations have secured a place for Roth, that peerless celebrant
and satirist of the dying Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the
affections of an army of Anglophone readers
*Independent*
A heartfelt evocation of an Empire in which he discernedvirtues
that outweighed all the burdens of a mindless officialdom... Roth's
masterpiece is of such enormous relevance to our times that we must
be grateful that it has found in Michael Hofmann, a translator who
does justice to its understated grief
*The Times*
One of the great novels of the last century. Its theme, beautifully
articulated, is the end of an era. Roth's anthem for a vanished
world has the intense, fleeting beauty of a sunset
*Sunday Telegraph*
Michael Hofmann has rendered us a service by bringing us a fresh
and lively translation of a 20th Century masterpiece
*Telegraph*
Over recent years, the poet Michael Hofmann's glittering
translations of Joseph Roth have single-handedly given a vanished
voice fresh resonance in the English-speaking world. Now Hofmann
has surpassed himself with the jewel in Roth's crown. The Radetzky
March [is] a majestically assured and engaging novel.
*Independent*
A great, wise, droll, novel
*The Week*
Remarkable... Elegantly told and rich in social history
*London Magazine*
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