Weights and Measures

Weights and Measures - Paperback

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Weights and Measures - Paperback

Weights and Measures - Paperback

by Joseph Roth
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"An absorbing, dark, beautifully written" novel on the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire "written with the melancholy wit and grace of Gogol" (New Statesman, The Times)

This deeply moving, deeply philosophical story set in Ukraine touches on timeless themes of uprooted identity, destiny, and loneliness

Widely praised and rarely available in English, Weights and Measures builds on Roth's most famous work, The Radetzky March. Among his final works, this fable about the disintegration of a good man transports us back in time to Eastern Europe's borderlands in the early 20th century.

In this haunting and poetic novel, scrupulous artillery officer Anselm Eibenschütz is persuaded by his wife to leave behind his job as an artilleryman in the Austro-Hungarian army and take up a civilian post as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a secluded territory near the Russian border. Once there, his discipline and quiet dignity begin to dissolve as he encounters a shadowy world of smugglers, fugitives, and runaways.

A deeply felt commentary on the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Weights and Measures registers on both a historical and personal level to portray the slow capitulation of a good man to insidious small-time corruption and to his own destructive passion.

Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: outstanding classic storytelling from around the world, in a stylishly original series design. From newly rediscovered gems to fresh translations of the world's greatest authors, this series includes such authors as Stefan Zweig, Hermann Hesse, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Gaito Gazdanov.
ISBN9781805330653
Author Joseph Roth
PublisherPushkin Press Classics
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages112
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Weights and Measures - Paperback

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About Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was one of the most brilliant and prolific writers of the 20th century. Born into a Jewish family in Brody, on the eastern fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Roth's life and work were defined by the tension between his provincial roots and the cosmopolitan centers of Vienna, Berlin, and Paris.A legendary journalist who was once the highest-paid writer in Germany, Roth is best known for his monumental family saga, The Radetzky March, and his prophetic final novel, The Emperor's Tomb. His writing--described by the Los Angeles Times as "shattering in its simplicity"--expertly captures the displacement of the "homeless wanderer" in the wake of the Great War.Forced into exile in 1933 following the rise of the Nazi party, Roth spent his final years in Paris, writing feverishly while struggling with alcoholism and poverty. He died in 1939, just months before the outbreak of World War II, leaving behind a body of work that serves as a haunting, lyrical epitaph for the lost world of Central Europe.

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