Liu Wei 
Roth’s Collection of Novels 6.Tara Basro 

This book is the sixth volume of the Collection of Roth’s Novels. It is included in Tara Basro: A Passer-by on the Earth, a novel by Austrian writer Joseph Roth. Through the ups and downs of a soldier named Tara Basro before and after the first World War, the novel shows the changes of times brought about by the first World War, and also allows readers to have a glimpse of the people’s livelihood in the frontier of the Austro-Hungary Empire at that time. The novel profoundly portrays the image of Tara Basro, describes his life track from murderous war maniac to willing to give up all authority and become a beggar, reveals the distortion and destruction of war on human nature, and vividly records the real situation of Eastern European Jews in the early 20th century.