"Der Tag: or, The Tragic Man" - это роман авторства немецкого писателя Йозефа Рота, опубликованный в 1926 году. Он рассказывает историю Андреаса Картака, бывшего офицера, который после окончания Первой мировой войны оказывается в Берлине и сталкивается с трудностями адаптации к новой жизни в Германии. Картак погружается в мир наркотиков, проституции и криминала, в то время как вокруг него начинается подъем националистического движения. Роман является пронзительным портретом Германии в межвоенный период и исследует тему человеческой духовной деградации и разрушения.
prevailing dandy set down in such a point that the world, which has known such heroic men, never knew a tragic man like him. Music was his anguish and the splendour of Paris his hell. He grew worse and worse. One night, when he had been at one of his Moscow obsessions, his sister went to his room and found him, pale as death, balled up to his chin in a red and emerald shawl, and fast asleep at his writing-table. She took him off to England from America at my instance, with Mrs Elton at her elbow. He got a farm in Somersetshire and did not write for eleven years. When that time expired he went back to London, where he settled in my house in Cockspur Street, — I had an empty house there. Not long afterwards he fell ill of Spanish consumption, or pleurisy, declared himself to be insensible for three days, and then woke up; quite well. The old man swore he would n't die to serve Jack plain Bill and allow him to see out his days in his own way before he dropped the curtain on it all. "Finally," he added for our benefit, "I am a Spaniard and I have too much pride in my correspondence with Spain to leave my country without witnessing her decisive victory over Napoleon.
Электронная Книга «Der Tag: or, The Tragic Man» написана автором Джеймс Барри в году.
Минимальный возраст читателя: 12
Язык: Английский
