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The Antichrist First Edition
Author(s): Joseph Roth (Author)
- Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd
- Publication Date: 30 Jan. 2010
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 176 pages
- ISBN-10: 0720613310
- ISBN-13: 9780720613315
Book Description
Unavailable for over seventy years and long out of print in English, The Antichrist First Edition is the most mysterious, if not bizarre, of Roth’s works, one that has long intrigued and baffled his many devotees.
A dizzying hybrid of novel, essay, and polemic, The Antichrist First Edition was written while Joseph Roth was in exile from Germany and his native Austria following the rise of Nazism, composed in cafes across free Europe after all his works in German went up in flames. The hybrid novel follows Roth’s fictional counterpart, J.R., a journalist hired by a proto-media mogul called the Master of a Thousand Tongues to report on the myriad emanations of the Antichrist throughout the world.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Part parable, part polemic, it is an intriguing period piece –The Guardian, James Smart
A concise, powerful writer who brilliantly evokes the social, political and intellectual turmoil of the era –Publishers Weekly
Roth is a very fine writer indeed –Angela Carter, The Guardian
A concise, powerful writer who brilliantly evokes the social, political and intellectual turmoil of the era –Publishers Weekly
Roth is a very fine writer indeed –Angela Carter, The Guardian
A concise, powerful writer who brilliantly evokes the social, political and intellectual turmoil of the era –Publishers Weekly
