by Joseph Roth · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788411489409
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Amidst the heat of the Battle of Solferino in 1859, Lieutenant Trotta saves the life of Emperor Franz Joseph, marking the beginning of the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The novel tells the story of the von Trotta family over three generations, whose fate becomes linked to the decline of the ruling dynasty. With a blend of irony and nostalgia, Joseph Roth transports the reader to a decaying world that resists disappearing.
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.
