The Collected Stories, in its variety and force, is the essential introduction to the fiction of Joseph Roth.
Appearing in English for the first time, The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth includes seventeen novellas and stories that echo the intensity and achievement of his greatest novel, The Radetzky March. Spanning the entire range of Roth's brief life (1894-1939) and showcasing the breadth of his literary powers, this collection features many stories just recently discovered. Roth's novellas and short stories will rank with Chekhov's as among the greatest of modern literature.
'[Roth] captures and encapsulates Europe in those uncertain hours before the upheaval of a continent and the annihilation of a civilization." - Cynthia Ozick
'The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragedie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction.' - Nadine Gordimer
'There may be no modern writer more appealing...none more able to combine the novelistic and the poetic, to blend lusty, undamaged realism with sparkling powers of metaphor and simile.' - James Wood, The New Republic
JOSEPH ROTH's classic books include What I Saw and The Radetzky March. He died in Paris in 1939. MICHAEL HOFMANN was awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for his translation of Roth's The Tale of the 1,002nd Night
