Description - Weights and Measures by Joseph Roth
A short, brilliantly evocative novel set in the bleak eastern European borderlands before the First World War
An artillery officer is persuaded by his resentful wife to leave the Austro-Hungarian army to take up a civilian post as inspector of weights and measures in a remote territory near the Russian border. At first attempting to exercise some proper rectitude in his trade duties, he is soon at a loss in a shadowy world of smugglers, profiteers and petty crooks.
This great, painful novel is both a brilliant evocation of the remote reaches of eastern Europe before the catastrophe of the world wars and a frightening picture of the slow capitulation of a good man with traditional standards to insidious small-time corruption and to his own destructive passion.
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Das Falsche Gewicht - Die Geschichte Eines Eichmeisters (Vollstandige Ausgabe)
Journalistische Werke: Reportagen aus Wien und Berlin + Reportagen aus Frankreich + Reise in Rußland: Die Weltberühmte berichte (1919-1939)
