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What is Weights and Measures about?
“An absorbing, dark, beautifully written” novel on the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire “written with the melancholy wit and grace of Gogol” ( New Statesman, The Times ) This deeply moving, deeply philosophical story set in Ukraine touches on timeless themes of uprooted identity, destiny, and loneliness Widely praised and rarely available in English, Weights and Measures builds on Roth's most famous work, The Radetzky March. Among his final works, this fable about the disintegration of a good man transports us back in time to Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the early 20th century. In this haunting and poetic novel, scrupulous artillery officer Anselm Eibenschütz is persuaded by his wife to leave behind his job as an artilleryman in the Austro-Hungarian army and take up a civilian post as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a secluded territory near the Russian border. Once there, his discipline and quiet...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Joseph Roth
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781805331261
- Category
- work of fiction
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (80 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14