What I Saw by Joseph Roth
In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic and political writings that influenced an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and the young Christopher Isherwood. Roth, like no other German writer of his time, ventured beyond Berlin's official veneer to the heart of the city, chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants - the Jewish immigrants, the criminals, the bathhouse denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the morgues. Warning early on of the threat posed by the Nazis, Roth evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy and debauched beauty, creating in the process an unforgettable portrait of a city.
The value of these feuilletons has nothing to do with typographical perspective, only with their non-stop brilliance, irresistible charm and continuing relevance -- Jeffrey Eugenides * New York Times *
This is a marvellous book, and a welcome addition to the ever-growing canon of Roth's work in EnglishIt offers proof, if proof were needed, that he is as brilliant and original a journalist as a storyteller, casting his eye and cocking his ear where lesser writers never venture... what a rich legacy of the human imagination he has left us -- Paul Bailey * Sunday Times *
An ironic, nomadic and prolific novelist of the Hasburg twilight, returned to life for English-language readers in Michael Hofmann's splendid translations, Roth also worked as a keen-eyed and inquisitive journalist. His reports form Weimar-era Berlin capture in diamond-glitter prose the booming, brash capital -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
A real original... most of these brilliant and quixotic pieces immortalize the everyday life of 1920s Berlin. Roth reads Berlin like a book: its typography and architecture, its personality, the characters who populate its streets and cafes. An instant classic -- Roy Foster * Financial Times *
A splendid and necessary book -- Nicholas Lezard
This is a marvellous book, and a welcome addition to the ever-growing canon of Roth's work in EnglishIt offers proof, if proof were needed, that he is as brilliant and original a journalist as a storyteller, casting his eye and cocking his ear where lesser writers never venture... what a rich legacy of the human imagination he has left us -- Paul Bailey * Sunday Times *
An ironic, nomadic and prolific novelist of the Hasburg twilight, returned to life for English-language readers in Michael Hofmann's splendid translations, Roth also worked as a keen-eyed and inquisitive journalist. His reports form Weimar-era Berlin capture in diamond-glitter prose the booming, brash capital -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
A real original... most of these brilliant and quixotic pieces immortalize the everyday life of 1920s Berlin. Roth reads Berlin like a book: its typography and architecture, its personality, the characters who populate its streets and cafes. An instant classic -- Roy Foster * Financial Times *
A splendid and necessary book -- Nicholas Lezard
JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia he was a prolific political journalist and novelist. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany for Paris, where he died in poverty a few years later. His books include What I Saw, Job, The White Cities, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books. MICHAEL HOFMANN is the highly acclaimed translator of Joseph Roth, Wolfgang Koeppen, Kafka and Brecht, and the author of several books of poems and book of criticism. He has translated nine previous books by Joseph Roth. He teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847081971 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847081975 |
| Titel | What I Saw |
| Autor | Joseph Roth |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Granta Books |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2013-08-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 288 |
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