 First edition, 1924 | |
| Author | Joseph Roth |
|---|---|
| Original title | Die Rebellion |
| Translator | Michael Hofmann |
| Country | Austria |
| Language | German |
| Publisher | Vorwärts Verlag Die Schmiede |
Publication date | 27 July 1924 |
Published in English | 1999 |
| Pages | 137 |
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.
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.