Fiction

(Classico Internazionale) The Legend of Original publisher: Libros del Zorro Rojo the Holy Drinker

Original Language: Deutsch

First publication: 2014 Pablo Auladell

Rights: of illustrations available for German and Italian

pp. 72, 16,5x24 3.061

A illustrated classical novel.

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Joseph Roth Joseph Roth The Legend of (1894 -1939), was an the Holy Drinker Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga The Legend of the Holy Drinker, a novella by Joseph Roth, was (1932) about the decline and fall of published in 1939, shortly after the author’s death. It tells the the Austro-Hungarian story of Andreas Kartak, an alcoholic vagrant of Polish origin, Empire, and for his novel of who one day receives the generous gift of two hundred francs Jewish life, (1930) as well as the seminal essay 'Juden auf Wanderschaft' (1927; from a stranger. Upon Andreas’ refusal, the stranger insists, translated into English as The Wandering Jews), telling him that if he wants to return the money later on, he a fragmented account about the Jewish must offer it to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, whose statuette stands migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian in the chapel of the Sainte Marie de Batignolles church. Revolution. Andreas promises to keep his word, but his journey to the church is constantly diverted by old friends, unexpected Pablo Auladell Alicante, encounters, and glasses of absinthe. Spain, 1972. He has been given the Second National Illustration Prize from the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 2005 for Peiter, Peter and Peer and other Andersen Tales. The Saló del Còmic de Barcelona has awarded him the Best New Talented Author Award 2006 for the book La Torre Blanca. In 2012, the book Alas y Olas, written by Pablo Albo and illustrated by Pablo Auladell, receives the Second National Prize for Best Children’s Book 2012 from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. He currently lives and works in Alicante.

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