Confession of a Murderer: Told in One Night

By Joseph Roth

In a Russian restaurant on Paris's Left Bank, Russian exile Golubchik alternately fascinates and horrifies a rapt audience with a wild story of collaboration, deception, and murder in the days leading up to the Russian Revolution. “Worthy to sit beside Conrad and Dostoevsky’s excursions into the twisted world of secret agents. Joseph Roth is one of the great writers in German of this century; and this novel is a fine introduction to this view of intrigue, necessity, and moral doubt.†? The London Times

• Language: English
• Publisher: ABRAMS
• Release date: Dec 31, 2002
• ISBN: 9781590209349

Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) nació en Brody, un pueblo situado hoy en Ucrania, que por entonces pertenecía a la Galitzia Oriental, provincia del viejo Imperio austrohúngaro. El escritor, hijo de una mujer judía cuyo marido desapareció antes de que él naciera, vio desmoronarse la milenaria corona de los Habsburgo y cantó el dolor por «la patria perdida» en narraciones como Fuga sin fin, La cripta de los Capuchinos o las magníficas novelas Job y La Marcha Radetzky. En El busto del emperador describió el desarraigo de quienes vieron desmembrarse aquella Europa cosmopolita bajo el odio de la guerra.  En su lápida quedaron reflejadas su procedencia y profesión: «Escritor austriaco muerto  en París».

Reviews for Confession of a Murderer

[laurochka-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Intriguing story, spys, affairs - unexpected ending in some ways.

[soylentgreen23 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

A strange little tale that ties itself up and finally concedes defeat by its conclusion.It takes place in a seedy European bar, with a would-be murderer relating his crime, and the reasons for it, to an assembled crowd of drunkards and societal detritus.The telling is far better than the story being told, and the ending? What a shame.