It reminds us of the reach of the Hapsburg empire- he was a Slovene, not an Austrian -and the fact that his fame had unintended consequences for him. ( Don’t you just love that when the bookmark, or even just a bus ticket, reminds you of when you read that book?) So I wanted to read along because I’m keen to share a book I enjoyed and admired and also because I’d become fascinated by the personality of the writer Joseph Roth since reading Ostende 36, an account of his friendship with Stefan Zweig, when they were both holed up in Ostende with other exiled writers, in flight from the Nazis.Īnswers to section One: That opening sentence tells us so much- the fact that the family were ennobled following the deed at Solferino, which was to dominate the life of Carl Josef von Trotta, the grandson of the Hero. I’d read it before and it only clicked when that was when a bookmark from the Jewish Museum in Krakow fell out of the pages – on a trip to Poland in 2008. What fun to be reading along for #germanlitmonth with Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March! Now this book, in the elegant Penguin Classics Edition translated by Joachim Neugroschel, was already on my shelves.
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