Rebellion
Rebellion, the last of Joseph Roth's novels to be translated into English, captures the cynicism and upheavals of a postwar society. Moving along at a breakneck clip, its jazz-like cadences mix with trenchant, albeit fantastic, social commentary to create a wise parable about justice and...
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Rebellion, the last of Joseph Roth's novels to be translated into English, captures the cynicism and upheavals of a postwar society. Moving along at a breakneck clip, its jazz-like cadences mix with trenchant, albeit fantastic, social commentary to create a wise parable about justice and society.Author Biography: JOSEPH ROTH was born in Galicia in 1894. He worked as a journalist in Vienna and Berlin until Hitler's rise to power. In 1933 he emigrated to Paris, where he spent the rest of his life among a community of intellectual exiles. He died in 1939.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312263836 (031226383X)
ASIN: 031226383X
Publish date: December 1st 2000
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
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