by Joseph Roth · ACANTILADO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416748563
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Fresas is a literary work by Joseph Roth that recreates his childhood in Brody, a city between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Tsarist Russia. The story features characters such as a wealthy Jew, an absent father, and traffickers, bringing to life the Jewish community of Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. Despite being incomplete, this manuscript condenses Roth's favorite themes, offering a melancholic and insightful vision of Europe's destiny.
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.
