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The radetzky march by joseph roth5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() “One need fear no danger indeed, there is none to fear,” he thinks. He proudly, defiantly imagines showing the permit to policemen who might stop him on the street. He’s issued a barrel organ, and a permit to play it anywhere he’d like in the city so he can make a living. But appearing before a commission that assesses the men, Andreas suddenly and genuinely exhibits symptoms of the disorder. He learns that the government will favor those returned soldiers who have shell shock - a condition suffered by only one of the 156 men at the hospital. ![]() We first see Andreas at a military hospital, preparing to re-enter an unnamed German-speaking society. He believes in a just God, “one who handed out shrapnel, amputations and medals to the deserving.” The protagonist of “Rebellion,” the Austrian writer Joseph Roth’s short but potent 1924 novel, Andreas loses a leg during World War I. $28.Īndreas Pum is a hard character to forget. REBELLION By Joseph Roth Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann 121 pages. ![]()
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