The Radetzky March

Roth is Austria’s Chekhov – William Boyd
One of the greatest novels written in the last century – Allan Massie
One of the most readable, poignant, and superb novels in twentieth-century German: it stands with the best of Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, and Robert Musil. Roth was a cultural monument of Galician Jewry: ironic, compassionate, perfectly pitched to his catastrophic era – Harold Bloom
A masterpiece … The totality of Joseph Roth’s work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction – Nadine Gordimer
The best novel is a book that, to my shame, I have only just read. Visiting Vienna earlier in the year, I realised how little I knew about the Austro-Hungarian empire. So I read Joseph Roth’s 1932 book The Radetzky March (Penguin Classics) and, as soon as I finished reading it, I read it all over again. – Chris Patten * New Statesman *

Joseph Roth was born in 1894 into a Jewish family living in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and now split between Poland and Ukraine. He became a successful journalist and travelled widely, eventually becoming best-known for his novels The Radetzky March, The Emperor’s Tomb and The Legend of the Holy Drinker. He died in Paris in 1939.

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