The antichrist / Joseph Roth ; translated from the German and with an introduction by Richard Panchyk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939.

Series:

Peter Owen Modern Classic Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German fiction.

Germanic literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Chicago : Peter Owen, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Long out of print in English, this dizzying hybrid of novel, essay, and polemic has less to do with religion than with what Roth sees as the disintegrating moral fabric of the modern world Written while Roth was in exile from Germany and his native Austria following the rise of Nazism, this work was composed in cafés across free Europe after all his works in German went up in flames. Such events no doubt influence the apocalytic tones of The Antichrist's protaganist, J.R., a journalist hired by an inscrutable media mogul hellbent on exposing evidence of the "Antichrist" throughout the world. This mission leads J.R. to authoritarian political regimes such as Red Earth (the Soviet Union) but also other poisonous terrains like The Land of Shadows (Hollywood)—it becomes all too clear that it is Roth's mission to chart the whole of civilization's slide into moral and political chaos. But herein lies the extraordinary strength and appeal of this work, as Roth is powerfully and even hilariously prescient. Mixing the diatribe with his trademark sardonic wit, he miraculously predicts the advent of the Holocaust, globalization, multimedia—even the paparazzi. Combining beautiful but savage writing with visual imagery out of a Coen Brothers movie, this is an invaluable addition to the Roth canon in English.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Contents

Introduction by Richard Panchyk

Translator's Note and Acknowledgements

The Antichrist

The Antichrist Has Come

A Force Has Come Between Us and the Grace of Reason

Hollywood, the Hades of Modern Man

Thus Invention, a Gift of the Mind, Became an Element of the Antichrist

This is the Aim of the Antichrist: To Desecrate One Wonder through Another

And I Also Became a Soldier

The Cannon and the Bells

The Master of a Thousand Tongues

The Place of Peace

The Red Earth

The Home of the Shadows

Under the Earth

Mankind in Cages

The Blessings of the Earth: Petroleum, Potash, Poison

Poison Gases Are Only Little Clouds

Vengeance is His

The Iron God

People Fear Each Other

The Tempters.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-7206-1451-1

0-7206-1404-X

0-7206-1452-X

0-7206-1434-1

OCLC:

812911751