by Joseph Roth · Books4pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415139904
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«La leyenda del santo bebedor» is the short novel by Joseph Roth, published by Books4pocket in 2013 in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
A vagabond receives two hundred francs from a stranger in Paris and must return them beneath the statue of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, in the church of Sainte Marie des Batignolles. The promise becomes an obligation that drink, bohemian nights and chance prevent him from fulfilling.
The German original, «Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker», was published in 1939. The present Spanish edition dates from 2013.
For those who enjoy twentieth-century German literary classics and short novels of a reflective tone.
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.
