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The Antichrist (Peter Owen Modern Classics) Book

Unavailable for over seventy years and long out of print in English, The Antichrist is the most mysterious, if not bizarre, of Roth's works, one that has long baffled even some of his many devotees. A dizzying hybrid of novel, essay, and polemic, it was written while 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.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    Long out of print in English, this dizzyinghybridofnovel, essay, and polemichas less to do with religion than with what Roth sees as the disintegrating moral fabric of the modern worldWritten while Roth was in exile from Germany and his native Austria following the rise of Nazism, this work wascomposed in cafes 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, multimediaeven the paparazzi. Combining beautiful but savage writing with visual imageryout ofa Coen Brothers movie, this is an invaluable addition to the Rothcanon in English.

  • Blackwell

    Joseph Roth's least-known yet most autobiographical novel begins with a dire warning: 'The Antichrist has come; so disguised that we ... cannot recognize him.' He is in our very midst, cleverly disguised as one of us. It is a race against time as...

  • 0720613310
  • 9780720613315
  • Joseph Roth
  • 30 January 2010
  • Peter Owen Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 176
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