Weights and Measures
Author | : Joseph Roth |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2017-10-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780241307458 |
ISBN-13 | : 0241307457 |
Rating | : 4/5 (457 Downloads) |
Download or read book Weights and Measures written by Joseph Roth and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one' At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschütz leaves his beloved Austro-Hungarian army and takes up a civilian post, as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a remote backwater near the Russian border. At first he does everything by the book, but gradually he finds himself adrift in a world of petty corruption, bribery and drunkenness - and undone by his passion for the beautiful gypsy Euphemia. A haunting evocation of Eastern Europe's borderlands in the early twentieth century, Weights and Measures is also the story of the disintegration of a good man. Translated by David Le Vay