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Review"Galician Jewry achieved another grand figure in Joseph Roth, whose Job is both immensely sorrowful and finally strangely hopeful."Harold Bloom "\_Job\_ is more than a novel and legend, it is a pure, perfect poetic work, which is destined to outlast everything that we, his contemporaries, have created and written. In unity of construction, in depth of feeling, in purity, in the musicality of the language, it can scarcely be surpassed."Stefan Zweig "This life of an everyday man moves us as if someone had written of our lives, our longings, our struggles. Roth’s language has the discipline and rigor of German Classicism. A great and harrowing book that no one can resist."Ernst Toller "\_Job\_ is perfect, and small: a novel as lyric poem."Joan Acocella "The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction."Nadine Gordimer Product Description"\_Job \_ is perfect. . . . a novel as lyric poem."—Joan Acocella Job is the tale of Mendel Singer, a pious, destitute Russian Jew and children's Torah teacher whose faith is tested at every turn. His youngest son seems to be incurably disabled, one of his older sons joins the Russ

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Author

Joseph Roth & Ross Benjamin

Publisher

Overlook Press

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780982624609

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (184 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14