| Confession of a Murderer | |
| Author: | Joseph Roth |
| Title Orig: | Beichte eines Mörders |
| Translator: | Desmond I. Vesey |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Language: | German |
| Publisher: | A. de Lange |
| Pub Date: | 1936 |
| English Pub Date: | 1937 |
| Pages: | 262 |
Confession of a Murderer (German: '''Beichte eines Mörders''') is a 1936 novel by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth. It has the subtitle Told in One Night (Erzählt in einer Nacht). The narrative focuses on a Russian exile, Golubchik, who tells what he claims is his life's story to a group of people, including Roth, in a restaurant in Paris.
James A. Snead of The New York Times wrote in 1985: "Roth's night-story implicitly identifies the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Golubchik's private 'tragedy of banality.' His futile search for paternity, homeland and revenge, ranging over 'Old Europe' from Odessa to Paris, is an ambivalent elegy to a lost epoch. The double narration creates an air of evasiveness and manipulation that mirrors the intrigues of the state bureaucracies Golubchik encounters."[1]