This novella, one of the most haunting things that Joseph Roth ever
composed, was published in 1939, the year the author died. Like Andreas,
the hero of the story, Roth drank himself to death in Paris, but this
is not an autobiographical confession. Rather, it is a secular
miracle-tale, in which the vagrant Andreas, after living under bridges,
has a surprising run of good luck that changes his circumstances
profoundly.
The novella is extraordinarily compressed, dry-eyed and witty, despite its melancholic subject matter.
The Legend Of The Holy Drinker - Joseph Roth
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