Joseph Roth

GPTKB entity

Properties (45)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Author
gptkbp:artMovement Expressionism
Modernism
Realism
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Austro-Hungarian_Empire
gptkb:Weimar_Republic
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Austrian_State_Prize_for_Literature
gptkbp:birthDate September 2, 1894
gptkbp:bornIn Brody
gptkbp:child Hannah_Roth
gptkbp:contributedTo Literature
gptkbp:culturalInfluence Jewish_literature
Austrian_literature
German_literature
gptkbp:deathDate May 27, 1939
gptkbp:famousFor Complex character development
Critique of modernity
Exploring themes of exile and loss
Use of magical realism
Depiction_of_the_decline_of_the_Austro-Hungarian_Empire
gptkbp:genre Historical fiction
Social criticism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Joseph Roth
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Peter_Handke
gptkb:Elfriede_Jelinek
gptkb:W.G._Sebald
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Franz_Kafka
gptkb:Marcel_Proust
gptkb:Thomas_Mann
gptkbp:language German
gptkbp:nationality Austrian
gptkbp:notableQuote "The only thing that matters is the story."
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
"I am a man of the world, and I have seen many things."
"We are all exiles, and we are all lost."
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:The_Radetzky_March
gptkb:The_Legend_of_the_Holy_Drinker
Job: The Story of a Simple Man
The Emperor's Tomb
gptkbp:occupation Journalist
Novelist
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Père_Lachaise_Cemetery
gptkb:Paris
gptkbp:spouse Fanny_Roth