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The Shah of Persia has come to Vienna. Whilst in court, he spots the most beautiful woman he has ever seen and desires her. Captain Taittinger, a young cavalry officer, wishes to avoid a diplomatic debacle that could arise should the Shah proposition this woman of standing, finds a solution: It was no surprise therefore that she took conmen and scoundrels for gentlemen from good backgrounds. For what is such a brief looking novel just pages , Roth manages to encompass a whole lost world. It closes the circle between the old world and the now-all powerful Nazi party, and becomes an elegy of great power.
It is full of flawed men and women, all looking out for themselves and nobody else, and missing the deeper human connections that could bind them all together. Apr 06, Dov Zeller rated it really liked it Shelves: He's come search of pleasure or romance, something to get at his gnawing, growing malaise. Roth invites us into a world in which people are spiritually adrift, at once helplessly, innocently incapable of escaping their own destiny, in the sense of circumstances they are born and drawn into, and at the same time horrifically guilty of an absurd failure to puzzle circumstances through in any satisfying way.
The novel weaves realism and fairy-tale elements together in seamless, edgy ways that keep us from getting too close to characters and from judging them. It is as if we are to read the circumstances of each character with the same helplessness they feel at each step of the way. This novel was written in the late s as Roth struggled to make sense of the loss of both the idea and actuality of a Europe he knew and loved, and that, he thought, once loved him.
It was published the year he died, in exile. I have read, in differing accounts, he drank himself to death, he died of pneumonia, of tuberculosis. Clearly he had lost his will to live. No one in "The Tale" can get enough traction to change the course of history in a meaningful way, and though this is a comic novel in tone, it isn't hard to sense the clouds of a gathering storm of unimaginable proportions.
But there's no call for that at all in the world. People are only interested in monsters and freaks, so I give them their monsters. Like Radetzky March and The Emperor's Tomb, it is set during the twilight years of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, and although the trajectories of the main characters' lives are tr "I might be capable of making figures that have heart, conscience, passion, emotion and decency.
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Like Radetzky March and The Emperor's Tomb, it is set during the twilight years of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, and although the trajectories of the main characters' lives are tragic, Roth wrote the story with a light hand. The novel is book-ended by two visits by the Shah of Persia to Vienna, with the eponymous string of pearls referring both to an actual pearl necklace that he presents to a certain lady, as well as the sequence of events that follow his visit.
Roth's literary career lasted less than two decades from the early s to the end of the '30s. In this relatively short span of time he wrote more than a dozen novels, a book's worth of short stories and novellas, and several volumes of journalism and essays. There is nothing in his oeuvre that I would not recommend -- Roth's insights into the times in which he lived, and the hearts and minds of people of both " While the incontestable masterpiece is Radetzky March, The String of Pearls is cut from the same cloth, and equally engaging and readable.
Cruel, lenta y con bastante de cuento oriental. Si tratta del primo romanzo di Joseph Roth che mi capita tra le mani - grazie ad un'adorabile bancarella dell'usato. E' questo il pretesto che l'autore utilizza per scatenare la vicenda principale del romanzo. In the spring of the year 18——, the Shah-in-Shah, the great, exalted and holy monarch, the absolute ruler and overlord of all the lands of Persia, began to feel a sense of malaise of a kind he had never experienced before.
If it seems like the beginning of a fairy tale, or folk tale, then its original title, Die Geschichte von der en Nacht The Tale of the nd Night would probably support that. For me the beginning of this novel fel In the spring of the year 18——, the Shah-in-Shah, the great, exalted and holy monarch, the absolute ruler and overlord of all the lands of Persia, began to feel a sense of malaise of a kind he had never experienced before.
For me the beginning of this novel felt so much like a Maupassant story that I wondered how Roth was going to spin it out for the whole length of a novel. But Roth is playing a different game here; what it is I'm not quite sure, but he's certainly playing around with our expectations of how the story is going to proceed.
So, the story begins around ish, with the Shah of Persia deciding to visit Vienna as a means to improve his physical and psychological health. After some amusing delays you will have to read it to discover these he arrives in Vienna and is treated with respect by the authorities and great interest by the populace.
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We are introduced to Baron Taittinger, Captain of the Ninth Dragoons, who has been seconded to assist with the running of the Shah's visit. The Baron is a bit of a loveable idiot who likes to split human beings into three categories: Meanwhile the Shah is treated to all sorts of entertainments, and it is whilst attending a ball that he is smitten by the Countess W.
Bored with his harem of wives he wants to fall in love with a Western woman. He had come to Europe to enjoy the singular, to forget the plural, to trespass on individual property, to break the law, just once, to experience the pleasure of unlawful possession and taste the particular, sophisticated pleasures of the European, the Christian, the Westerner.
Used to geting what he wants the Shah demands that the countess is brought to him that evening. So what can the Austrian courtiers do? The Countess can't be treated like a common prostitute and the Shah will feel snubbed if they refuse him his wish. It turns out that the Baron, who had been involved briefly with the countess before her marriage, had also had a brief fling with a girl, Mizzi Schinagl, daughter of a shopkeeper, who looks as if she could be the twin sister of the countess; it's decided that she should 'stand-in' for the countess and be presented to the Shah.
Mizzi, who is currently working in a brothel, is persuaded to do this and everything goes to plan. As a gift, the Shah gives Mizzi a string of pearls.
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It is here that the focus of the story becomes more fluid as we now follow Mizzi Schinagl and her relationship with the Baron and the brothel owner Frau Matzner. We have already been told how Mizzi had given birth to a son by the Baron; the Baron however had no interest in the boy and it was left to Mizzi to bring him up. But Mizzi is in love with the Baron—her love for the Baron persists throughout the novel, despite the Baron's apparent indifference.
Mizzi sells the pearls and ends up losing the money and going to prison over a scam. The String of Pearls has an enormous number of characters for such a small book and it is from this point in the novel that it became a bit disorienting for me as I was no longer sure who was the main focus of the book; we switch from Mizzi to Matzner to the Baron to a writer called Lazik and back to the Baron.
In the end the book is about the Baron's and Mizzi's relationship, but being rather an unconventional one, we are taken on a circuitous journey. Roth's description of the Baron is rather entertaining: He took the Captain as he was, and was fond of him, with his cheery heartlessness, his incapacity to think beyond a couple of thoughts, for which his skull was far too roomy, his insignificant love affairs and childish infatuations, and the pointless and unconnected remarks that came out of his mouth, seemingly at random.
He was a mediocre officer, who didn't care about his comrades, his men, his career. The Baron is a bit of a blockhead who just breezes through life but as his money runs out and he is forced to resign from the army, due to a scandal over some dodgy literature, he has to depend on others. But it's too late for any drastic changes to be made to his life. In telling this story Roth avoids giving us what we want, instead he veers away at the last minute from doing so.
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One looked on for a moment, and felt so richly rewarded one felt like saying Thank you. As it happens, one of the shah's advisers has come to know a Baron Taittinger, an army officer and local bon viveur. The answer is simple, says Taittinger to a worried contingent of Persian and Austrian officials. We simply find a lady of the evening who resembles the countess. And, as it happens, the Baron knows just the woman — his own former mistress, Mizzi Schinagl, now working at Frau Matzner's brothel.
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So Mizzi is decked out in a ball gown, and the shah is led through the darkened corridors of what he thinks is a "fairy-tale Occidental castle"; a bliss-filled night fully convinces him "that the erotic arts of the West were considerably more sophisticated than those of his native land. The next day the master of Persia orders his eunuch to deliver a gift to his "countess": At this point, Roth shifts the focus of the story to Mizzi and what she does with the pearls.
Later, as in a round, he takes up the other morally flawed but very human figures touched by the sexual deception: There is, eventually, a trial, a bankruptcy, an attempted murder, the opening of the World Bioscope Theater and a suicide — as well as several beautiful descriptions: A thin chilly boring drizzle was coming down gently and persistently, giving the dismal yellow oil lamps on the platform a damp halo.
Even the first-class waiting room harbored an oppressive gloom, and the potted palm on the buffet let its heavy slender leaves droop as though it, too, were standing out in the autumn rain. Two gaslights, the newly acquired pride of the station, had something wrong with their mantles, and gave out a flickering greenish glow. They emitted, what's more, a plaintive buzz, a lamentation. The white shirtfront of Ottokar the headwaiter bore sorry stains of unknown provenance. The metallic glitter of the Captain of Horse made a victorious entrance into all this gloom.
Ottokar brought a Hennessy 'to take the chill off,' and a menu. Discovering so much enchantment in "The Tale of the nd Night," in part for what translator Michael Hofmann calls its strong "fabulistic" element, I couldn't help but wonder how it compared to some of Roth's other novels. So I read three more of them. The early "Hotel Savoy" opens with a former soldier, newly released from a Russian POW camp, arriving in a gray, rain-swept industrial city somewhere in Central Europe.
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He checks into the local hotel, where he promptly falls in love with an unhappy exotic dancer, attends the deathbed of a vaudeville clown, becomes a millionaire's secretary and eventually finds himself entangled in a fiery workers' insurrection. There's clearly a lot of period symbolism here, and the short novel possesses a tone both Kafkaesque and expressionist: The boorish rich man's son ends up with the beautiful, doomed Stasia; the unseen and all-powerful manager of the Savoy turns out to be, in fact, its elderly elevator operator. About "The Radetzky March" , generally esteemed Roth's masterpiece, one can hardly be temperate: It's one of the most impressive novels of the century.
When a common infantryman saves the Emperor's life at the battle of Solferino, he is elevated to the aristocracy and given the order of Maria Theresa. As a result, Captain Trotta feels alienated from his peasant father, and from his own true self. But he is locked into his new position, his new role — as will be his son, who becomes a government administrator, and grandson, who lives in the shadow of "the hero of Solferino. The book is organized as a series of interlocking vignettes: Reading these episodes, one murmurs "Turgenev, Pushkin, Tolstoy," but where the Russians would have written entire novels or long stories, Roth compacts everything into a stunning chapter or two.
Take, for example, the brilliantly controlled pages in which Carl Joseph calls to offer his condolences to the broken-hearted Sgt. Slama, who at the end of their awkward conversation shyly gives the young officer a small bundle: As in "The Tale of the nd Night," Roth presents a panoramic tableau of Austro-Hungarian society, from top to bottom. Interestingly, two minor characters in "The Radetzky March" are none other than Mizzi Schinagl — a fleeting passion of the civil administrator — and Baron Taittinger, an army colleague of young Carl Joseph.
I also read "The Legend of the Holy Drinker," Roth's last major work , in which a drunken vagrant, who normally sleeps under the Paris bridges, becomes the astonished recipient of a largish sum of money, which he is told must eventually be returned to St.
In the course of trying to repay his debt, Andreas meets a lascivious former mistress, a con artist and various other worldly figures, until an encounter with an innocent young girl leads him to fulfill his promise and find a happy death. It's a lovely tale, part Zola, part saint's life.
No doubt some of Roth's other novels — "Job," for instance — deal more directly with his Jewish heritage. But in these particular books Jews are largely submerged in the ethnic goulash of the Austro-Hungarian empire, a multilingual swirl of Ruthenians and Slovaks, Ukrainians and Galicians, Czechs and Serbs. One paragraph in "Hotel Savoy," depicting the Jewish quarter of town, does provoke a tellingly mournful observation: The dancers at the Savoy "stood there, white and naked like young swans.