La cripta de los capuchinos

The imperial pantheon in Vienna gives its name and symbolism to "The Crypt of the Capuchins". In this novel, Joseph Roth looks with nostalgic eyes and disappointed irony at the events of a generation that came out of one war to find itself destined for another. The narrator is Trotta, a frivolous and dissolute young man who assists in the transformation of a society to which he cannot adapt. From the months before the First World War to the "Anschluss", the protagonist goes through the scenes of hedonism and Viennese decadence, of the "shtetl" on the Galitzian border, of Siberian captivity..., but also the human landscapes of affection filial, three-way love, madness, camaraderie and friendship.