What is it about Austrian and German writers and Hotels?Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth chose the Hotel as the setting in which they accommodated their stories and characters. It seems to have also been a generational preference but not solely. The younger Fred Wander also published Hôte...
I found it, although it is a fictionalization of a historical person's life, of a significant, controversial, almost mythical person, rather simple and light. The narrative flows with a chraracter presented as usually being detached from a very turbulent era and country, althought he was one of ...
Now available for the first time in English, this important addition to the Roth canon is rich in irony and exemplary of Roth's keen powers of social and political observation A novel fragment that was discovered among Joseph Roth's papers decades after his death, this book chronicles the life a...
If a life was snuffed out from the host of the living, another life did not instantly replace it and make people forget the deceased. Instead, a gap remained where he had been, and both the near and distant witnesses of his demise fell silent whenever they saw this gap. If a fire devoured a house...
And to get those one must go to Dubno. Thus Deborah pays a visit to Sameshkin. Sameshkin is no longer sitting on the stove bench, he’s not home at all, it’s Thursday and the pig market, Sameshkin won’t return home for an hour. Deborah walks up and down, up and down outside Sameshkin’s hut, she th...
For the inventor has done nothing other than apply God’s gift of sense. If, however, one makes use of a divine gift and it then acquires an evil purpose, the evil element must have injected itself between the moment of invention and that of its application in real life. And just as gold, for exam...