Abstract: This essay delves into the ideological mechanisms of spatial production in Joseph Roth’s Job: The Story of a Simple Man . Through the narrative of the Singer family’s migration from a Russian shtetl to New York, the novel unfolds a spatial dialectic reflecting Roth’s political imagination as a former subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. An ideological analysis of the novel’s spatial imagery reveals Roth’s contribution to the Habsburg Myth without succumbing to nostalgic sentiments, allowing him to use space to explore future political alternatives that inherit the Habsburg Empire’s supranational legacy.
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