6/19/2023 0 Comments The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth![]() Soon he feels calm, lighthearted-already dead, almost. His life has offered him little but insults. ![]() Later, in the night, he reconciles himself to this. According to the Army’s code of honor, Demant must go to the duel, in which he knows he will die, and for nothing. When Demant insults him back, Tattenbach screams, “Yid, yid, yid!,” and challenges him to a duel at dawn. ![]() The next day, in the officers’ club, a swinish captain, Tattenbach, taunts Demant about his wife’s adventure. ![]() One night, a young lieutenant-Baron Carl Joseph von Trotta, the hero of the novel and Demant’s only friend-innocently walks Frau Demant home after the opera. The other officers despise him, the more so since his wife deceives him at every opportunity. He can’t ride he can’t fence he can’t shoot. He never wanted to be in the Army, but he didn’t have the money to set up a private practice. He adores her, and that isn’t his only problem. “Why didn’t you knock?” she asks poisonously. ![]() She is wearing only a pair of blue panties, and is brandishing a large pink powder puff. We first encounter her as Demant walks into their bedroom. In “The Radetzky March,” Joseph Roth’s 1932 novel about the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, there is an Army surgeon, Max Demant, whose wife loathes him. ![]()
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