Rebellion (German: Die Rebellion) is a 1924 novel by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth. It tells the story of a war veteran who has become a street musician after losing one leg. The novel was published in the newspaper Vorwärts from 27 July to 29 August 1924. It has been adapted for television twice: in 1962 by Wolfgang Staudte, and in 1993 by Michael Haneke.

Rebellion
First edition, 1924
AuthorJoseph Roth
Original titleDie Rebellion
TranslatorMichael Hofmann
LanguageGerman
PublisherVorwärts
Verlag Die Schmiede
Publication date
27 July 1924
Publication placeAustria
Published in English
1999
Pages137

Reception

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Nicholas Lezard of The Guardian reviewed the book in 2000: "Roth's tale has that very European, straightforward, fairy-tale logic that makes everything both inevitable yet strangely nightmarish. You wouldn't be far wrong to think of Roth as occupying the fourth corner of a square whose other apices are Kafka, Musil and Stefan Zweig." Lezard continued: "At one or two points the novel leaps into strange, almost magical-realist territory; not a term I like much, but it suggests the sense of dreamlike dislocation you feel from time to time while reading. This portrait of one of the shards of a splintering society is deceptively simple, but will haunt you for a long time afterwards."[1]

In 2021 the Irish writer Hugo Hamilton published a novel entitled The Pages. It is a story told from the perspective of a book, a first edition of Roth’s The Rebellion.

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References

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  1. ^ Lezard, Nicholas (2000-07-15). "In his own corner". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-02-21.
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  • Rebellion at Projekt Gutenberg-DE (in German)