La Cripta de los Capuchinos

Starring the last scion of the lineage of the Von Trotta (the family that serves as the common thread to the monumental "The Radetzky March"), "The Crypt of the Capuchins" (name with which the pantheon or Imperial Crypt of Vienna) is the novel in which Joseph Roth (1894-1939) gives his definitive testimony of the end of an era. Published in 1938, this twilight tale recounts the last years of the Empire through the figure of Franz Ferdinand von Trotta, not by chance named the same as the crown prince whose murder precipitated the First World War and, rejection, its collapse. Wrapped in an atmosphere of finishing and stoic dignity, Trotta will slide through the catastrophe in what is an elegy of the habsbúrguica monarchy, the vast geographical area in which, under the father figure of Francisco José, peoples, cultures coexisted and disparate religions.