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Legend of the Holy Drinker, The
This tale of an alcoholic is a secular, miracle story, that describes the fortunes of a vagrant who, after living under bridges, has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of existence. author: Roth, Joseph; publisher: Granta Bks.
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Granta Books The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was a superb writer whose compact yet lambent fiction deserves the highest praise (and a much wider readership). <I>The Legend of the Holy Drinker</I>, written and published in the year of his death, is a deeply affecting tale of Andreas, an alcoholic like Roth, who drinks himself to death in the rough houses of Paris.<p>Michael Hoffman's superb translation has rightly garnered much praise. Hoffman stresses that, although often esteemed for the simplicity of his style, Roth is no brutalist: it is the economy and the directness of his writing that is so moving and makes his work so special. Despite its melancholic subject matter <I>The Legend</I> is an uplifting novella.<p>Throughout the tale Andreas, previously an impoverished vagrant, is continuously visited by miraculous good fortune that illuminates the last days of his mendicant existence and lift him, and the reader, to a new understanding of his (our) dissolution. Roth was a peerless writer and Granta must be praised for bringing him back to our attention in such lovely volumes. --<I>Mark Thwaite</I>
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