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Three Novellas: The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Fallmerayer the Stationmaster and The Bust of the Emperor (Works of Joseph Roth)
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Joseph Roth
The Legend of the Holy Drinker" tells the haunting story of a dissolute vagrant who is uplifted for a short time by a series of miracles. Written in the final days of Roth's life, it is a novella of sparkling lucidity and humanity. "Fallmerayer the Stationmaster" and "The Bust of the Emperor" are Roth's most acclaimed works of shorter fiction.
Paperback, 112 pages
Published
October 28th 2003
by Overlook Press
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This was an excellent introduction to Roth, which consisted of three very good novellas:
Fallmerayer the Stationmaster: The life of a stationmaster in a small Austrian town is permanently altered after he rescues a Russian countess from a horrible train crash a short distance away.
The Bust of the Emperor: An aging count and relic of the defeated Hapsburg Empire is forced to come to terms with the changes in post World War I Europe and his diminished status.
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Fallmerayer the Stationmaster: The life of a stationmaster in a small Austrian town is permanently altered after he rescues a Russian countess from a horrible train crash a short distance away.
The Bust of the Emperor: An aging count and relic of the defeated Hapsburg Empire is forced to come to terms with the changes in post World War I Europe and his diminished status.
The ...more
Perhaps my favorite of all the roths, of course you don't get incest or sex with with a piece of liver like in henry and philip's infamous novels. But I strongly recommend. Haunting and lovely.
I was worried when I disliked the first book--Fallmerayer. It seemed to be a conventional story of a man driven by passion to adultery. But the other two novellas were unusual and interesting. The Legend of the Holy Drinker was both funny and sad as the Drinker finds himself driven alternately by "miracles" and alcohol. The Bust of the Emperor is a humane portrait of a man unable to accept the fall of the Empire
An honest man is doubly shamed at the sight of meanness, first because the very existence of it is shameful, second because he sees at once that he has been deceived in his heart.
-Joseph Roth, The Bust of the Emperor
-Joseph Roth, The Bust of the Emperor
i checked this collection out of the library for one of its stories, "the legend of the holy drinker", and that's the only one i've read so far. it's an interesting story -- a strangely whimsical account of a hapless drunk who an unspecified holy power keeps helping -- sort of the opposite of Job, i guess. it's translated from german, and if the translation is an accurate one, i'd say the story has an oddly whimsical tone. my first impression after reading it was: fun-to-read but kinda...more
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