''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
Wolfgang Staudte (9 October 1906 – 19 January 1984), born Georg Friedrich Staudte, was a German film director, script writer and actor. He was born in Saarbrücken.
After 1945, Staudte also looked at German guilt in the cinema. Alongside He ...
, and in 1993 by
Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke (; born 23 March 1942) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. His work often examines social issues and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society. Haneke has made films in French, G ...
.
Reception
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
Stefan Zweig (; ; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist, and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular write ...
." 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."
See also
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1924 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1924.
Events
*January
**Writer Miguel de Unamuno is dismissed for the first time from his university posts by the Spanish dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera an ...
*
Austrian literature
References
External links
''Rebellion''at Projekt Gutenberg-DE
1924 German-language novels
Austrian novels
Novels by Joseph Roth
Novels first published in serial form
Novels set in the interwar period
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