John Hughes
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And he was correspondingly well paid.
He was a prominent figure by the middle of the 1920s.
So Berlin gives him the chance to establish himself first as a journalist and then building on that as an author of fiction from 1923.
Hey, you don't have to share everything.
Why spread bank accounts when online payment is enough for mobile pay?
Yeah, well, Rodetzky March, or The Rodetzky March, as I think it's been translated into English, it's certainly his longest novel.
It's the one which is most acclaimed and for which he's probably best remembered.
It's the one which established him as the great chronicler of the end of empire history.
It's actually quite different to many of his previous novels, certainly the ones he published in the 1920s, many of which, with the partial exception of Rebellion, actually have quite fragmentary, quite open endings.
A good example would be Flight Without End from 1927, which includes with the protagonist feeling completely lost, alive, but not knowing what to do with his life.
And we don't know what happens next.
The Rudetsky Marsh, by contrast, has a real sense of finality in its conclusion.
It concludes with the deaths of its main characters, but also with the end of the empire that has shaped them.
And the two are sort of intertwined in the novel.
So as you say, it's the moments in his career that he really firmly looks back and tries to take stock of what happened at the end of empire and why it mattered to him.
So it's a generational novel.
in which the story of a single family somehow stands as a metaphor for the decline of the empire as a whole under the leadership of the aging Kaiser Franz Josef, who actually appears several times as a character in the novel.
The story is focused on three male members of the von Trotter family.
It begins with a grandfather figure who, as a young man, saves the life of the emperor at the Battle of Solferino, which took place in 1859, which makes him a sort of hero of the empire, but also elevates the family into the aristocracy.
We meet his son, who is a sort of patrician, bureaucrat, very, very conservative and controlling.
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