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Joseph Roth — La milleduesima notte | DeRank™: 0,00

Reaching a clairvoyant and desperate maturity, the narrator Roth takes here an additional distance from the story he tells. In vain would we search in these pages for those mediamente autobiographical characters who in his other novels were surrounded by the aura of Roth's own sensitivity. (cit. Adelphi) more
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Joseph Roth — Giobbe | DeRank™: 0,00

- Roth's Job is named Mendel Singer; he is a "simple man" who works as a 'teacher,' that is, he teaches the Bible to children...
- His life flows quietly, "between meager banks," but enclosed in an untouched order, until the birth of his fourth child, Menuchim, who is impaired.
From that moment on, if "everything sudden is evil," as Mendel Singer says, many evils begin to rush into his life.
He will have to leave his homeland to go to New York, in a world that is completely foreign to him, and his wife – once again a memorable female character – his daughter and his sons will each be touched by war, death, and madness. (cit. Adelphi) more
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Joseph Roth — Il profeta muto | DeRank™: 0,00

Kargan is primarily a "stateless" person in a world of people who still delude themselves into thinking they have one. After having traveled, "lonely and grim," the roads of the rich who humiliate him, trained immediately in illegality, driven by resentment, by the lust for destruction, and by the desire for an Absolute, Kargan launches into his own war "against society, against the homelands, against the poets and painters who frequent His house," (quote Adelphi) more
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... is one of the rare characters in modern literature that immediately represents a destiny. “I read in your hand that you are a murderer and a saint,” says a gypsy to the young Tarabas... (cit. Adelphi) more
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... many are the paths that Roth explores in these tales, and more than once it can be said that they lead to the land of perfection... (quoted from Adelphi) more
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Joseph Roth — Viaggio in Russia | DeRank™: 0,00

After the early years of enthusiasm for the revolution, when he signed “Roth the Red,” he had now entered a phase of doubt: thus he saw this journey as a valuable opportunity for verification. Attentive, curious, with a bright eye and steady hand, he wandered through the great cities, followed the course of the Volga, ventured among the peoples of Central Asia, writing his correspondences in real time. (cit. Adelphi) more
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... it is a fairy tale about Evil, about its hypnotic power to drive its victims into circular and obsessive stories, which slowly tighten like a noose. This metaphysical, irreducible Evil takes on a peculiarly Russian form here: as a dark connivance between denunciation, resentment, erotic abjection, and the anxiety to atone, punish oneself, confess... (quoted from Adelphi) more
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Joseph Roth — Ebrei erranti | DeRank™: 0,00

These pages repopulate before our eyes, with the magic of words, that part of Europe where almost no Jews remain today and anti-Semitism continues to reign undisturbed. (cit. Adelphi) more
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Joseph Roth — Zipper e suo padre | DeRank™: 0,00

At first, young Zipper is just a freckled classmate who always mentions his father as the source of all authority; and old Zipper is a man bent by the fatigue of the immense stride he has taken: born a proletarian, he has become petty-bourgeois, and now he defends his conquest with his nails, wandering through his life like the mismatched sixteenths of a popular encyclopedia. (quoted from Adelphi) more
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Joseph Roth — La Marcia di Radetzky | DeRank™: 0,00

This book, from the first line to the last, sweeps us away like a wave, and we finish reading it abandoned to a final ebb.
Never before have the imperial totality unfolded so faithfully on these pages, like a mantle that equally covers the marshy regions of the eastern frontier, the boulevards of the Ring where the Lipizzan horses parade, amidst black and golden helmets, under "the blue porcelain eye of the Emperor," and the garrison towns, with their clubs, barracks, brothels. (cit. Adelphi) more
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Joseph Roth — Le città bianche | DeRank™: 0,00

For three months, between September and November 1925, Roth wandered through the South of France. That journey was accompanied, for him, by a sense of liberation: at thirty, he discovered the “white cities” of Provence, which he had dreamed of during a gray childhood. At the same time, he felt every oppressive Germanness drifting away. He experienced a new way of breathing: “I have gained the freedom to stroll, among ladies and gentlemen, among street singers and beggars, with my hands in the pockets of my trousers...” (from Adelphi) more
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Joseph Roth — La ribellione | DeRank™: 0,00

Andreas Pum, the protagonist, is a war invalid who still believes in the order of the world and of men and dreams of owning a stamp shop. But fate, behind which masks the inescapable oppression exerted by society, gradually transforms him into a scapegoat, into a helpless Job, forced to acknowledge the omnipresence of evil. (from Adelphi) more
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Joseph Roth — Il peso falso | DeRank™: 0,00

... his writings, while preserving the realistic framework, seem to naturally allude, transparently, to a further meaning... (from Adelphi) more
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Joseph Roth — Destra e sinistra | DeRank™: 0,00

... this novel is a perfect example of hot narration, where those extreme characters—graspers, terrorists, crisis-ridden bourgeois, conspirators, drifters, failures—become narrative ghosts that flourished in pre-Nazi Germany... (cit. Adelphi) more
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Joseph Roth — I cento giorni | DeRank™: 0,00

With the same immediacy, in the same direct manner in which he narrated the events of obscure Jews from Eastern Europe or Habsburg officials, Roth tells in this book (first published in 1935) a story of Napoleon – specifically the most dramatic phase of his epic, which spans from the escape from Elba to the defeat at Waterloo and the boarding for Saint Helena.
These are the "hundred days" that made the world dream, for one last time, of new perspectives. (quote. Adelphi) more
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Barney talks to us about his three wives – an existentialist poet, a billionaire with robust appetites and an unstoppable chatter, and Miriam, the beloved Miriam, who has just left him.
He shares his passions, like commenting on the newspapers or listening to Miriam on the radio at night.
He describes his entertainments, such as imagining Terry McIver struggling in a shark-infested sea, or throwing galoshes at the forward of his hockey team who has just missed a goal. (from Adelphi) more
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Mordecai Richler — Il mio biliardo | DeRank™: 0,00

What do Paul Newman, the Queen Mother of England, and the sleepless people willing to watch on television, until dawn, the silent evolutions of colored balls on a full-screen green table have in common?
Simple: a passion, the same one that Mordecai Richler has always had and that he has decided to narrate in this book, his last.
Convinced that billiards is a game too serious to be left to sports journalists... (from Adelphi) more
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As a child, sixty years before becoming Barney Panofsky, Mordecai Richler was absolutely forbidden from turning the lights on or off, answering the phone, or listening to the radio on Saturdays. In the days leading up to Yom Kippur, he was forced to swing a chicken over his head to transfer the sins of the past year onto the terrified animal. At thirteen, having become an apikoros, a heretic, he converted to the secular, socialist, and Zionist faith of Habonim, the Builders, eager to land in Palestine as soon as possible and establish a Jewish state. In the end, Richler would not emigrate to the Promised Land. He would visit it twice, in 1962 and 1992... (from Adelphi) more
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The story indeed spans two centuries, two shores of the Atlantic, and five generations of a Jewish dynasty in which everything is immense: vitality, wealth, luxury, an inclination toward pleasure in every form. But no great family is without blemish, and the blemish of the Gursky family is named Solomon... (from Adelphi) more
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"The room was full of the dead. The moon illuminated their yellow and purplish faces through the windows, their cavernous mouths, their dark and half-closed eyes, their protruding noses... the dead women in caps and shrouds, the dead men, if officials, in uniform... the merchants in their festive attire": the coffin maker has invited his clients to dinner and Pushkin can clamp down on the unruly matter of existence, with his geometric and transparent prose, dry and procedural, yet also biblical and concrete, rendering its mystery and agitation. (from Adelphi) more
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