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Before his death in 1939, Joseph Roth produced 13 works of fiction--most of them sardonic valentines to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As a Galician Jew, not to mention a biting social critic, Roth knew that life under the Dual Monarchy was not exactly flawless. Yet he retained a deep attachment to the old regime, which must have looked more and more civilized as the Nazis came to power. In 1933 he fled to Paris, where he commenced a slow, alcoholically induced suicide--managing, however, to write several more books, of which The Tale of the 1002nd Nightwas the last to appear.Like so many of Roth's novels, this one is a celebration of Vienna in its pre-Anschlussdays--during the 1870s, to be precise. "At this time," we're informed, "the world was deeply and frivolously at peace." In keeping with the frivolity, perhaps, Roth puts a fairy-tale-like spin on his memories. He opens The Tale of the 1002nd Nightwith a state visit by the Shah of Iran, transforming historical fact into whimsical fiction. And once he shifts the narrative to Vienna proper, his characters make their entrances and exits with brilliant, dreamlike rapidity. It would be tempting to compare the entire story--which rev

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Author

Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939.

Publisher

Kiepenheuer & Witsch, ©1987.

Published

1987

Language

DE

ISBN

9783462018431

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.64 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14