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"The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a "tragedie humaine" achieved in the techniques of modern fiction."--Nadine Gordimer
The faith of Mendel Singer, a teacher in Galicia, is tested at every turn. Eventually his worldview erodes along with his belief in God's omnipotence. Singer and his family move to America, where his eldest son joins the army and is killed in WWI. Then a miracle occurs, and Singer's faith is renewed. This moving and insightful modern fable is one of Joseph Roth's greatest works.
Born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the border of the Hapsburg Empire, Joseph Roth, author of more than fifteen novels, was one of the central figures of the emigre intellectual opposition to the Nazis. Roth is among the greatest Central European writers of the twentieth century.
Industry Reviews
Galician Jewry achieved another grand figure in Joseph Roth, whose Job is both immensely sorrowful and finally strangely hopeful. --Harold Bloom
Job is more than a novel and legend, it is a pure, perfect poetic work, which is destined to outlast everything that we, his contemporaries, have created and written. In unity of construction, in depth of feeling, in purity, in the musicality of the language, it can scarcely be surpassed. --Stefan Zweig
This life of an everyday man moves us as if someone had written of our lives, our longings, our struggles. Roth's language has the discipline and rigor of German Classicism. A great and harrowing book that no one can resist. --Ernst Toller
A beautifully written, and in the end uplifting, parable for an era of upheaval . . . Job, opened to any page, offers something of beauty. . . Ross Benjamin's excellent new translation gives us both the realism and the poetry. --The Quarterly Conversation
The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragedie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction. --Nadine Gordimer
ISBN: 9780982624609
ISBN-10: 0982624603
Published: 24th November 2010
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 250
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Country of Publication: US
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 18.42 x 14.61 x 1.91
Weight (kg): 0.27
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