Penguin Classics Lunches: Jonathan Fenby on Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March

If you’re in Shanghai  this Friday this should be a good lunch at M on the Bund.

Friday, October 22, 12pm

RMB 188, includes a three-course lunch with coffee or tea
Reservations: 6350 9988

Join M on the Bund and Penguin for their second Penguin Classics Lunch, as former South China Morning Post editor Jonathan Fenby discusses his favourite Penguin classic, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth.

Jonathan Fenby, CBE, has been the editor of the Observer and the South China Morning Post and has held positions
at the Guardian, the Independent, the Economist and Reuters. His books include Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost, Dealing with the Dragon: A Year in the New Hong Kong and The Penguin History of Modern China. He is on the board of the European Journalism Centre and is a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at London University. Fenby is currently editor in chief of the information website, Trusted Sources.
His favourite Penguin Classic is The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth.

The Radetzy March: Strauss’s Radetzy March, signature tune of one of Europe’s most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth’s account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918. Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his enoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an administration whose failure he can neither comprehend nor survive; the third for the family standards of conduct which he cannot attain but against which he is too enfeebled to rebel.