Casual thoughts on an important Austrian novel: Joseph Roth’s Radetzkymarsch

A quick chat about this important read. Here's the link to the more general but good lecture about te book: • Bordering on crisis: J...
And here's a link to the march, the background is an historical movie. (might be a "Sissi" movie, since I see Romy Scheider). • Radetzky March (Radetz...

[@Paromita_M]

Very nice discussion.
I have been exploring some German and Austrian authors e.g. Mann, Musil, Zweig, Kafka, Hesse but totally missed this work. Hope to try it soon.
Wonder how it compares to Buddenbrooks?
Happy reading!

[@lakvii]

oh I've totally pronounced the author's name wrong; thanks for the explanation! this book is on my tbr and I will read it eventually but right now is probably not the right time. I'm quite tired of men and war and related themes.