by Joseph Roth · Pasos Perdidos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493987961
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The Hundred Days is a novel by Joseph Roth that recreates the end of the Napoleonic empire. The story follows Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba, his arrival in France amidst popular fervor, the formation of an army, and his final defeat at Waterloo. Throughout these hundred days, the emperor faces discouragement and doubt, aware that the crowd acclaims an image of Napoleon that no longer exists. In this context, Angelina blindly joins her destiny to the figure of the emperor. The novel intertwines the destinies of Napoleon, the victorious general who changed history, and Angelina, an anonymous character swept away by events.
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.
