Rebellion ( German : Die Rebellion ) is a 1924 novel by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth . It tells the story of a war veteran who has become a street musician after losing one leg. The novel was published in the newspaper Vorwärts from 27 July to 29 August 1924. It has been adapted for television twice: in 1962 by Wolfgang Staudte , and in 1993 by Michael Haneke .
6-454: Nicholas Lezard of The Guardian reviewed the book in 2000: "Roth's tale has that very European, straightforward, fairy-tale logic that makes everything both inevitable yet strangely nightmarish. You wouldn't be far wrong to think of Roth as occupying the fourth corner of a square whose other apices are Kafka , Musil and Stefan Zweig ." Lezard continued: "At one or two points the novel leaps into strange, almost magical-realist territory; not
12-557: A 1920s novel is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Nicholas Lezard Nicholas Andrew Selwyn Lezard is an English journalist , author and literary critic . The Lezard family went from London to Kimberley in South Africa in the 1800s. Nicholas Lezard's great-grandfather, Louis Flavien Lezard (1877–1960), of Hallam Street in central London, became
18-415: A noted solicitor (senior partner, Lezard, Robins and Edmeades) and local figure in the country, serving as chairman and president of several Kimberley institutions. Louis's eldest son, Julien (1902–1958) – the third son, Squadron Leader Selwyn Edward Lezard (1908–1974), R.A.F.V.R. , being Nicholas Lezard's grandfather – was a Cambridge-educated barrister and noted society figure and gambler, who served in
24-489: A term I like much, but it suggests the sense of dreamlike dislocation you feel from time to time while reading. This portrait of one of the shards of a splintering society is deceptively simple, but will haunt you for a long time afterwards." In 2021 the Irish writer Hugo Hamilton published a novel entitled The Pages. It is a story told from the perspective of a book, a first edition of Roth’s The Rebellion. This article about
30-521: A weekly column, 'Nicholas Lezard's choice', reviewing paperback books for The Guardian . He also writes for The Independent , and contributes the 'Down and Out' column for the New Statesman . His book The Nolympics: One Man's Struggle Against Sporting Hysteria was published in 2012 by Penguin Books . Lezard's memoir, Bitter Experience Has Taught Me , about his life after a marriage ended,
36-567: The Special Operations Executive alongside Xan Fielding . Julien Lezard married Hilda, daughter of Sir Daniel Cooper, 2nd Baronet ; she was the widow of Thomas Uchter Caulfield Knox, Viscount Northland, son of Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly , and of Geoffrey Edward Mills, son of Charles Mills, 1st Baron Hillingdon . He was educated at The Hall School, Hampstead , Westminster School , and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1984, MA 1990). From 2007 to 2017, he had
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