Stationschef Fallmerayer

by Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth erzählt „das merkwürdige Schicksal des österreichischen Stationschefs Adam Fallmerayer“, dessen ereignisloses Leben durch die Begegnung mit einer russischen Gräfin in völlig neue Bahnen gelenkt wird. Der Literaturkritiker Marcel Reich-Ranicki hat die Novelle in seinen Kanon der herausragenden Werke der deutschsprachigen Literatur aufgenommen.

31 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 31, 2010

About the author

Joseph Roth, journalist and novelist, was born and grew up in Brody, a small town near Lemberg in East Galicia, part of the easternmost reaches of what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire and is now Ukraine. Roth was born into a Jewish family. He died in Paris after living there in exile.

http://www.josephroth.de/