Confession of a Murderer
{{short description|1936 novel by Joseph Roth}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Confession of a Murderer
| image = File:Confession_of_a_Murderer.jpg
| caption =
| 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
References
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External links
- [http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/4261/1 Confession of a Murderer] at Projekt Gutenberg-DE {{in lang|de}}
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Category:1936 German-language novels
Category:Novels by Joseph Roth
Category:Novels set in Austria-Hungary
Category:Novels set in the interwar period
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