by Joseph Roth · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433911728
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Immerse yourself in the disturbing atmosphere of 'Confession of a Murderer,' a masterpiece by Joseph Roth that explores the depths of the human soul. On an endless night in Paris, an enigmatic character, the illegitimate son of a Russian prince and a former agent of the Tsarist secret police, reveals his dark story to a captivated audience. This confession becomes a fable about Evil, its hypnotic power, and its ability to trap its victims in a labyrinth of denunciation, resentment, and abjection. Roth presents us with a figure of the modern Devil, a mellifluous being who moves between the Tsarist and Lenin's police, guiding his chosen ones to a hell of atrocity. A demand for 'absolute justice' leads the protagonist to a falsified world, where the line between good and evil blurs.
Moses Joseph Roth was a Austro-Hungarian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life Job (1930) and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft", a fragmented account of the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the 21st century, publications in English of Radetzky March and of collections of his journalism from Berlin and Paris created a revival of interest in Roth.
