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Wanted to like it more
I can't put my finger on why this book just seemed average to me.The writing is clear and easy to read.The descriptions are detailed, but not overly so.The characters are fully-fleshed and interesting.The plot is engrossing.So why didn't I like it more?I don't know.Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I can't identify with life in a monarchy and I can't stomach the pampered, entitled lifestyle of people who don't deserve such wealth and leisure.

Regardless of all that, I did find it interesting that Roth depicted gambling addiction so accurately (or at least as I imagine it to be) long before anyone recognized it as such.

While I occasionally felt sorry for the characters, by the end I was just happy to be finished and that I would no longer have to linger in their world.

Helpful hint
I have little to add to the helpful reviews here but just wish to inform readers:

Michael Hoffman's superb translation is now available in the US - ASIN 1862076057 - and is the best translationof this wonderful work.

Three and a half stars
I would highly recommend this book if you are (like me) fascinated with the decline of the Habsburg dynasty during WWI. However, I would not be as eager to do so if you were not. Roth's powers of description and detail are superb to say the least and this allows him to perfectly capture the pessimism and slow decline of Austria Hungary before the war, yet his lack of effective dialog and heavy handed symbols and allusions really hurt this work from a pure literary perspective.
Roth's magnificent eye for setting and some truly amazing scenes depicting the emperor Franz Josef, and the state of the Austrian army make this a must read for those interested in the period

Superb novel, disappointing translation
For anyone interested in European society before 1914, "The Radetzky March" is a must-read. It is a masterful portrayal of one family's bonds to Austro-Hungarian Empire and the House of Habsburg over three generations.

Unfortunately, as other reviewers have pointed out, Neugroschel's traslation is very disappointing.Some terms are only partially translated ("Rittmeister" becomes "Rittmaster" on p. 94), which is worse than no translation at all. The name of the Austrian parliament, the Reichsrat, is translated as "Imperial Council" (p. 135), but that seems overdone. Reichsrat is isn't the emperor's council, and the word "Reichsrat" is usually left untranslated as a proper noun (e.g. no one calls the Reichstag the "Imperial Diet"). Other Austrian terms, used in the late 19th century, are given Americanisms or neologisms.

If you can get your hands on it, read the British translation of "Radetzky March" (ISBN: 1862076057) published by Granta Books and translated by Michael Hofmann.Hofmann's translation is more sensitive to the feel of the time and more subtle. It is not perfect (Onufrij becomes Onufri, Frau Hirschwitz's Prussianisms are translated in chs. 2 and 3), but it is certainly better.

Not Enough Stars for This One
There can be very little more satisfying than discovering a new author. I had never heard of Joseph Roth until a friend recommended I read anything written by him. I picked up this title because it was the only one available in my local library.
What a stroke of luck!
This is a masterpiece of the highest order. There are no accidents in this beautifully crafted and written work of art. Every detail and scene is carefully calculated to present the complex life of the individual in the overall rush of history, as an empire decays and collapses and an entire value system fades away, along with the Emperor Franz Joseph and three generations of the Trotta family. The individual also lives and quickly dies within the eternal cycles of nature, so poignantly drawn by Roth.
I will never be able to do this work justice in just a brief review. I read the Everyman's Library edition, with a brilliant introduction by Alan Bance (which should absolutely be read AFTER reading the work, not before). That introduction does justice to every aspect of this masterpiece and pays tribute to Roth as a major literary figure.
This work alone puts Roth in the company of Flaubert, Mann, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Woolf, Kafka, and anyone else you can name. Bance points out that there's something of a sequel to this work in "The Emperor's Tomb," which I have read and also thoroughly enjoyed.
If you care at all about art and literature, please read "The Radetzky March." I guarantee you will not be disappointed.

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Title: Joseph Roth. The Radetzky March.(Book Review)
Author: Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1996
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 16Issue: 2Page: 188(2)

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