by Joseph Roth · Acantilado · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496136199
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«El busto del Emperador» is the short story by Joseph Roth, published by Acantilado in paperback (62 pages, in Spanish).
Written in 1935, it tells the story of Count Morstin, an Austrian aristocrat who, after World War I and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, retires to his native village and places a bust of Emperor Franz Joseph in front of his house. The narrative reflects on the loss of one's homeland and how the creation of new frontiers, geographical or ideological, narrows the human horizon.
It belongs to the Cuadernos del Acantilado collection (no. 4). Translated by Isabel García Adánez; the original German title is «Die Büste des Kaisers».
For readers of twentieth-century Central European literature and those interested in the work of Joseph Roth.
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.
