Rebellion

Joseph Roth was born in 1894 into a Jewish family living in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and now split between Poland and Ukraine. He became a successful journalist and travelled widely, eventually becoming best-known for his novels The Radetzky March (also in Penguin Modern Classics), The Emperor’s Tomb and The Legend of the Holy Drinker . He died in Paris in 1939.

Carolin Duttlinger is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College and Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre. She has worked on Kafka for over twenty years and is one of the leading authorities on his work, and author of Kafka and Photography (OUP 2007), The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka (CUP 2013) and Franz Kafka in Context (CUP 2017).


In 2024 she will co-curate Kafka Global, a major public Kafka exhibition at the Bodleian Library Oxford and a Kafka arts festival featuring several newly commissioned works in drama, dance, literature and music.

Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. For Penguin he has translated four books by Hans Fallada, in addition to works by Franz Kafka, Ernst Jünger, Irmgard Keun and Jakob Wassermann.