Social criticism in Joseph Roth's Radetzkymarsch.
Roth's emotional attachment to his subject does not prevent him from presenting the faults and weaknesses of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Monarchy at the turn of the twentieth century is in the grips of decay, which is manifest in the ever-widening discrepancy between appearance and reality...
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| Language: | en |
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University of Canterbury. Department of German
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2221 |
| Summary: | Roth's emotional attachment to his subject does not prevent him from presenting the faults and weaknesses of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Monarchy at the turn of the twentieth century is in the grips of decay, which is manifest in the ever-widening discrepancy between appearance and reality. The author's ambivalent attitude to the past results in a tendency to refrain from direct comment on persons and events. The double-edged nature of irony appears to be the most adequate tool for expressing social criticism in the context of 'Radetzkymarsch'. |
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