Henry Roth

Henry Roth ( born February 8, 1906 in Stanislav, Galicia, Austria - Hungary, † October 13, 1995 in Albuquerque, New Mexico ) was a Jewish-American novelist and short story writer.

His first novel Call it Sleep was published in 1934. He describes the childhood of a son of Jewish- Galician immigrants in poor New York East Side and contributes autobiographical. The book is considered a masterpiece of the genre.

After a break from writing for nearly 60 years, the autobiographical novel cycle joined The grace of a wild stream ( Mercy of a Rude Stream).

Works

• Call It Sleep. Ballou, New York, 1934. German edition: Call it Sleep. Translated by Curt Meyer- Clason. Kiepenheuer and Malevich, Cologne and Berlin in 1970.
• Recompilation: Call it Sleep. Translated by Eike Schönfeld. Kiepenheuer and Malevich, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-462-02700- X

Novel tetralogy " Mercy of a Rude Stream":

• Volume 1: A Star Shines Over Mt Morris Park. St. Martin 's, New York 1994, ISBN 0-312-10499-5. German: The grace of a wild stream. Translator's heath summer. Beltz, Weinheim 1996, ISBN 3-88679-707-4

• Volume 2: A Diving Rock on the Hudson. St. Martin 's, New York 1995, ISBN 0-312-11777-9 German: A floating rock on the banks of the Hudson. Translator's heath summer. Beltz, Weinheim 1997, ISBN 3-88679-709-0

• Volume 3: From bondage. St. Martin 's, New York 1996, ISBN 0-312-14341-9 German: Unleashing. Translator's heath summer. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89834-013-9

• Volume 4: Requiem for Harlem. St. Martin 's, New York 1998, ISBN 0-312-16980-9 German: Requiem for Harlem. Translator's heath summer. Red Book, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3434531394, With Epilogue & glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew expressions

Texts from the estate:

• An American Type. Hg Willing Davidson. Norton, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-393-07775-9 German: An American. Translator's heath summer. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-40321-3