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On the inexpressible in autobiographical texts. In: BГ¤rbel GГ¶tz, Ortrud Gutjahr, Irmgard Roebling (eds.): Schwewiegenes Ich. The 'Bust of the Emperor' by Joseph Roth.

#Endless legend emperor edition inhalt series#

Universitaire Pers, Leiden 1977, ISBN 90-6021-411-0 ( German and English series of the University of Leiden 16). Thorsten Juergens: Critical aspects of society in Joseph Roth's novels.Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 1-8 ( Rowohlt's Monographs 301). In self-testimonials and picture documents. Book guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7632-2988-4. Towards the end of his life he tried again to cope with his father trauma and personally buried his вЂњtwoвЂќ fathers, the dead imperial and the missing corporal, with the emperor's bust on a symbolic level. He never knew his father and all his life longed in vain for home and fatherly security, a longing that he increasingly projected onto the emperor Franz Joseph, whom he had glorified, in exile. On a psychological-biographical level, Roth can be found in the figure of Count Morstin, wandering homelessly. On this basis, suggests Roth, a whole new empire could be established. After all, the stone emperor cannot rot, that is, the Austrian idea embodied in him can never become invalid. Beyond the resigned realization that Franz Joseph and his kingdom are dead, Morstin hopes for their resurrection. On the socio-political level, the вЂњbust of the emperorвЂќ can be understood as a plea for the restoration of the monarchy. Social or national conflicts cannot arise in the patriarchal-feudalist structured community, because everyone accepts their status and that of their fellow human beings and respects the sovereignty of Emperor Franz Joseph. With the idyllic village of Lopatyny, far from modern civilization, he creates the representative microcosm of an ideal, utopian multinational society. In the novella, Joseph Roth depicts the past almost as if in a fairy tale. The old Austro-Hungarian monarchy by no means died from the hollow pathos of the revolutionaries, but from the ironic disbelief of those who should have been their faithful supporters. The count then goes to the Riviera and doesnвЂ™t want to be buried in the family crypt later, but right next to the grave with the bust of the emperor. When the voivode is gone, the bust is buried with the participation of the villagers and buried with all honors. Conclusion of the flying visit: The bust must not remain on the ground in Poland.

One day the voivode of Lvov, formerly known as Lviv, came to Lopatyny on an inspection tour through his sphere of influence. When he got home in Lopatyny, the count had the bust of the deceased ruler put up again in front of his castle. After the war, the Count had to watch in the American Bar in Zurich, like a copy of St. During the war, the count hides the bust in the castle cellar. Soon after, a farm boy from the area delivers a hand- carved sandstone bust of the beloved ruler to the count. On the occasion of an imperial maneuver, His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty spends a few days in the Count's castle. When someone from the aristocratic neighborhood disrespects Emperor Franz Joseph in his presence speaks, he just doesn't associate with the prankster anymore. Coming from an old Polish family - with roots in Italy - the Count feels neither a Pole nor an Italian, but as an Austrian, i.e. Because that violent willingness to help the needy is the only distraction of the grand seigneur. The inhabitants of the east Galician village Lopatyny - located between Przemysl and Brody - respect and love their Count Franz Xaver Morstin.