The Radetzky March

Author: Roth, Joseph, Neugroschel, Joachim

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 28 January 2016 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Penguin Modern Classics series.

Paperback | 368 pages
131 x 200 x 26 | 270g

NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Sublime ... it inspires a kind of evangelical cult passion among its devotees Simon SchamaRoth is Austrias Chekhov William Boyd Strausss Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europes most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roths account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918. Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his enoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an administration whose failure he can neither comprehend nor survive; the third for the family standards of conduct which he cannot attain but against which he is too enfeebled to rebel.