Job – Rothův Román prostého člověka: Příspěvek k interpretaci (s reflexí českého překladu studie Claudia Magrise: Daleko odkud. Joseph Roth a východožidovská tradice)

Abstract

The article written on the 70th anniversary of the death of the Austrian Jewish writer Joseph Roth (1894 – 1939) deals with the contemporary reception of Roth internationally and in the Czech Republic and reminds of one of Roth’s most famous novels Job. The story of a Simple Man (1930). In a dialogue with the international literary science it refl ects on the specifi c form of East Jewish ethos and assimilation as well as other topics which “the story of a simple man” brings up for discussion.