“I am a Frenchman from the East, a humanist, a rationalist with religion, a Catholic with a Jewish brain, a true revolutionary.” This is how Joseph Roth, the celebrated writer born in 1894 in Eastern Galicia, now Ukraine, characterized himself. Erwin Steinhauer and the Ukrainian accordionist Andrej Serkov conjure up Roth’s literary worlds together. First, with “The Model Pupil,” about an ambitious man who seems to succeed at everything, while laughter and love remain out of his reach. Then with the novella “The Emperor’s Bust,” in which Roth sends Count Morstin into exile through the crumbling monarchy, a situation into which he himself was forced in 1933.

Andrej Serkov

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