by Joseph Roth · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433930064
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«La leyenda del Santo Bebedor» is the short novel by Joseph Roth, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (94 pages, in Spanish).
A former Silesian miner, Andreas Kartak, ekes out a living in Paris as a clochard. One night, under the bridges of the Seine, a stranger gives Andreas two hundred francs that he must return to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux at the church of Sainte Marie des Batignolles. Alcohol and unforeseen encounters divert Andreas in his attempt to fulfill the task.
The work was published in 1939, after Joseph Roth's death, under the original title «Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker»; it is no. 6 in Panorama de narrativas, with a prologue by Carlos Barral.
«La leyenda del Santo Bebedor» is a work for readers of twentieth-century Central European fiction seeking a short tale with a human background and parable-like overtones.
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.
