Weights and Measures
Joseph Roth
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Regional- und Ländergeschichte
Beschreibung
In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Anselm Eibenschütz is appointed inspector of weights and measures in a remote border town. There he encounters a shadowy world of gamblers and smugglers - and discovers his wife is pregnant by another man. Right and wrong prove hard to judge, as Eibenschütz is drawn into a destructive affair of his own.In this late masterpiece, Joseph Roth depicts the slow corruption of a decent man at the lawless edge of a crumbling world.
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Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Historical Fiction, Hotel Savoy, Army Deserter, The Spider's Web, Exile, Drunkenness, Thieves, Smugglers, Hapsburg Army, Brooding, Haunting, Morality, Corruption, Zlotograd, Criminal, Flight Without End, Marital Problems, Joseph Roth, Translated Fiction, Modern Classics, Second World War, German Literature, Destructive Passion, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Army Officer, Fable, Snow, European Classics, Brody, Alcholism, Inn, Bribery, East Galicia, Eastern Europe's Borderlands, First World War, Russia, Ukraine, Frozen Landscape, Tragedy, Novella, Petty Crooks, Adultery, Infidelity, Loneliness, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Justice, The Emperor's Tomb, Gambling, Job, Temptation, Civilian Post, Austrian Writer, Love Affair, Forbidden Love, Cheating, Stefan Zweig, Satirical, Disillusionment, Russian Border, Fiction, Weights and Measures, Honest Man, The Gambler, Twentieth Century Literature, On The Margins, Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March, Scnapps, Betrayal, Literature in Translation