Confession of a Murderer

{{short description|1936 novel by Joseph Roth}}

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| name = Confession of a Murderer

| image = File:Confession_of_a_Murderer.jpg

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| author = Joseph Roth

| title_orig = Beichte eines Mörders

| translator = Desmond I. Vesey

| country = Netherlands

| language = German

| publisher = A. de Lange

| pub_date = 1936

| english_pub_date = 1937

| pages = 262

}}

Confession of a Murderer ({{langx|de|Beichte eines Mörders}}) is a 1936 novel by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth. It has the subtitle Told in One Night (Erzählt in einer Nacht). The narrative focuses on a Russian exile, Golubchik, who tells what he claims is his life's story to a group of people, including Roth, in a restaurant in Paris.

Reception

James A. Snead of The New York Times wrote in 1985: "Roth's night-story implicitly identifies the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Golubchik's private 'tragedy of banality.' His futile search for paternity, homeland and revenge, ranging over 'Old Europe' from Odessa to Paris, is an ambivalent elegy to a lost epoch. The double narration creates an air of evasiveness and manipulation that mirrors the intrigues of the state bureaucracies Golubchik encounters."{{Cite web|last=Snead|first=James A.|date=1985-07-14|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/31/specials/roth-confession.html|title=In Short|work=The New York Times|accessdate=2012-04-11}}

See also

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