by Joseph Roth · ACANTILADO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495359742
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«La Cripta de los Capuchinos» is the Austrian novel by Joseph Roth, published by Acantilado in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Young Trotta, heir to a family ennobled by Franz Joseph, evokes his life in Vienna before the First World War. The novel follows the decline of the Habsburg Empire, the war, the postwar period, and the arrival of the Nazis. Trotta, a symbol of a decaying world, descends into the imperial crypt to confess his failure.
Written in 1938, it is part of Acantilado's Narrativa collection as number 26, in a translation by Jesús Pardo de Santayana.
For readers of classic Central European fiction and novels about the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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.
