The Emperor's Tomb
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The Emperor's Tomb is a 1938 novel by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth. The Overlook Press published an English translation by John Hoare in 1984. The title refers to the Imperial Crypt in Vienna. The
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Michael Hofmann
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Michael Hofmann is a German-born poet, translator, and critic. The Guardian has described him as "arguably the world's most influential translator of German into English".
The Emperor's Tomb
…Vienna. The novel was adapted into the 1971 film Trotta directed by Johannes Schaaf. New Directions Publishing Corporation published a new translation by Michael Hofmann in 2013. New German edition, based on the first print: Joseph Roth, Die Kapuzinergruft, ed. by Werner Bellmann, Reclam, Stuttgart 2013. [with detailed…
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