Láska, smrt a vzkříšení - tři novely – Roth Patrick (2020)

The book titled Love, Death, and Resurrection contains three novellas by the German writer Patrick Roth (born 1953), who is known in our country for the first edition of the novel Corpus Christi (1998) and later for the publication of the substantial volume The Book of Joseph (2018). From Roth's extensive work, Volvox Globator has now decided to publish three novellas: My Journey to Chaplin, The Foreign Rider, and Magdalena at the Grave, whose overarching theme is the question of resurrection, rebirth in the sense of rediscovering the meaning of life. Roth has long been engaged with the theme of modern understanding of biblical ideas in the present. My Journey to Chaplin (Suhrkamp 2013) is an autobiographical novella from 1997, written in the tradition of the artist's novel, capturing the enchantment with Chaplin and his films during youth up to artistic maturity. The artist's journey to genius took place on New Year's Day 1976, and the author recalls it with the intention of summarizing the effects that the encounter with Chaplin had on his psyche, artistic career, and entire life. In the novella The Foreign Rider, which originally formed the fifth part of Roth's Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics delivered at J.W. Goethe University in 2002, the author depicts a celebratory reconstruction of an encounter that went down in history as...