TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roth,Joseph
AU  - Panchyk,Richard
TI  - Perlefter
SN  - 9780720614503
AV  - PT2635.O84 -- A2 2013eb 
U1  - 833.912 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - Peter Owen Publishers
KW  - Middle class -- Fiction
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front Cover -- About the Author -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE -- INTRODUCTION -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- IX -- X -- TRANSLATOR'S AFTERWORD -- ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR -- Copyright -- Back Cover
N2  - Now available for the first time in English, this important addition to the Roth canon is rich in irony and exemplary of Roth's keen powers of social and political observation A novel fragment that was discovered among Joseph Roth's papers decades after his death, this book chronicles the life and times of Alexander Perlefter, the well-to-do Austrian urbanite with whom his relative, a small-town narrator, Naphthali Kroj, has come to live after becoming orphaned. The colorful cast of characters includes Perlefter's four children: foolish Alfred, with his predilection for sleeping with servant girls and widows and boasting of the venereal diseases he contracts; the hapless Karoline, whose interest in math and physics and employment at a scientific institute seem to repel serious suitors; the flamboyant Julie, a sweet, pale, and anemic girl who likes any man who is inclined toward marriage; and the beautiful and flighty Margarete, besotted with a professor of history. Written circa 1928-30, Perlefter represents Joseph Roth at the very peak of his literary powers-it was penned just after the publication of The Silent Prophet and just before his masterpieces Job and The Radetzky March
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