Just finished Rebellion last night. Posted review on amazon today:

The way God died., March 16, 2004
Reviewer: vsopvs (see more about me) from Fair Lawn, NJ United States
In Kafka's "The Trial" God is already dead. Here, in "Rebellion", Roth shows how it all happened. Another book, which comes immediately to mind after finishing "Rebellion" is "The Overcoat" by Gogol: i would love to know whether Roth read it and was in any way influenced by it.

"Rebellion" is the first novel Roth has written. I read it right after "The Radetzky March", in the wrong order, so to speak. Surely it's even less nuanced, but there's some great truth in Roth's writing, ability to present general and symbolic ideas using everyday life details.

The book is a bit sentimental and melodramatic, still it has something real about it, like any other great work of literature. I am planning to continue with Josef Roth, with his fiction - and, especially - with his journalism. Considering the quality of his fictional prose, it must be of the highest quality.
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