by Joseph Roth · Newton Compton Editori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788854169746
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«La leggenda del santo bevitore» is the short novel by Joseph Roth, published by Newton Compton Editori in paperback (128 pages, in Italian).
Andreas, a vagabond under the bridges of Paris, receives two hundred francs from a stranger and promises to deliver them as an offering at a church; each time he tries to settle his debt, temptations lead him astray. Considered Joseph Roth's literary testament, the tale portrays with irony human fragility and the desire for redemption.
The tale was originally published in 1939 as «Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker»; this complete edition includes an introduction by Giorgio Manacorda.
For readers of classic European fiction and twentieth-century short stories with a moral undertone.
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.
