Ilya Ehrenburg wrote: "In our time writing novels, traditional, old-fashioned - Galsworthy, Dreiser, etc. Write experimentally - Joyce, Proust and others, Josef Roth, perhaps the only one who writes a completely new way and at the same time breaking with tradition. "
"Job" - one of the most famous works of famous Austrian writer, the classics of world literature of XX century by Joseph Roth (1894 - 1939). The hero of the novel, Mendel Singer, utterly exhausted by hard life, he went with his family from Russia to America. But here, like the biblical Job, misfortune pursued him. And when fate brings Singer to bitterness in his life is a miracle ... Joseph Roth, the author of famous works, including "Radetzky March", "Crypt of the Capuchins' and, of course, the" Job "- a novel, full of bitterness and hope.
Joseph Roth, Austrian writer, can be called a "twin" of Isaac Babel. Not only do they have the same years of birth and death, that they grew up not far from each other (Roth - in the town of Brody, near Lvov, and Babel - in Odessa), that their life was tragically cut short early and (Roth died of delirium tremens , which drove himself, and Babel was shot) - they also started out as journalists (from all sides of the front line coverage of the Polish campaign in 1920), and both in his prose courted fame brilliant and inimitable stylists. Is surprisingly similar to writer's handwriting style: short, often smart phrase, an abundance of metaphors, irony, and the connection is a rare lyricism, irony and sadness.
After studying philology at the universities of Lemberg (Lvov), and Vienna, Josef Roth worked as a reporter for a modest, but soon discovered a remarkable talent, and, after moving to Germany, quickly became one of the most famous and highly paid journalists. Editors and readers of Berlin's "Forverts", "Frankfurter Zeitung" and other prestigious publications valued his travel books, pamphlets, articles, sketches, which he sent from different countries in Europe, including Russia, where he spent several months in 1926.
Of course stories and prose, Roth was born: numerous short stories and novels "Hotel" Savoy, "" Escape without end, "" right and left, "etc., but finally established himself in the mouth between ¬ tional recognition and gained fame with the classic time ¬ literature after the publication of the novels "Job" (1930) and "Radetzky March" (1932). Subject decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was in aching tones of elegy, have remained the leading company of the rest of his days (novels "The Capuchin Crypt," "Tarabas", "False Weight", "History 1002 First Night").
He died in Paris the year before the Nazis entered the city.
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