The Radetzky March (2000)

The Radetzky March

Joseph Roth

Authors: Joseph Roth

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“For a man like Herr von Trotta, this was no easy undertaking. He had unusual notions about the eastern border of the monarchy. Because of embarrassing lapses in duty, two of his schoolmates had been transferred to that distant crownland, at whose edges the Siberian wind could probably be heard howling. The civilized Austrian was menaced there by bears and wolves and even more dreadful monsters, such as lice and bedbugs. The Ruthenian peasants made sacrifices to pagan gods, and the Jews raged cr...uelly against other people’s property. Herr von Trotta took along his old revolver. He was not the least bit terrified of adventure; indeed, he experienced that intoxication he had felt in his long-buried boyhood—the excitement that had driven him and his friend Moser to go hunting in the mysterious wooded depths of his father’s estate and to visit the graveyard at midnight.
Herr von Trotta took a terse and cheery leave of Fräulein Hirschwitz, vaguely and boldly hoping he would never see her again.MoreLess Read More Read Less