First published in several issues of the Frankfurter Zeitung newspaper in the spring of 1924, the novel by the famous Austrian writer and journalist became o...

Austrian writer Joseph Roth (1894–1939) is one of the most significant literary masters of the 20th century. After the First World War he lived in Germany an...

A whole complex of Dostoevsky’s motives is revealed in “Confession of a Murderer...”, starting with the title of the story and its Russian atmosphere (the ma...

Long out of print in English, this dizzying hybrid of novel, essay, and polemic has less to do with religion than with what Roth sees as the disintegratin...