✍ Scribed by Michael Hofmann
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Roth--with Kafka, Mann, and Musil--in the twentieth-century literary canon.
Who would have thought that seventy-three years after Joseph Roth's lonely death in Paris, new editions of his translations would be appearing regularly? Roth, a transcendent novelist who also produced some of the most breathtakingly lyrical journalism ever written, is now being discovered by a new generation. Nine years in the making, this life through letters provides us with our most extensive portrait of Roth's calamitous life--his father's madness, his wife's schizophrenia, his parade of mistresses (each more exotic than the next), and his classic westward journey from a virtual Hapsburg shtetl to Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt, and finally Paris.
Containing 457 newly translated letters, along with eloquent introductions that richly frame Roth's life, this book brilliantly evokes the crumbling specters of the...
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\*Joseph Roth ''Werke'', 6 Bde. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 1989â91, auch Büchergilde Gutenberg (Lizenz-Ausgabe) \*\* Band 1â3: ''Das journalistische Werk'', Hrsg. von Klaus Westermann \*\*\*2. Bd, 1924-1928, 1040s.
\*Joseph Roth ''Werke'', 6 Bde. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 1989â91, auch Büchergilde Gutenberg (Lizenz-Ausgabe) \*\* Band 4â6: ''Romane und Erzählungen'', Hrsg. von Fritz Hackert \*\*\*5. Bd, 1930-1936, 900s.
\*Joseph Roth ''Werke'', 6 Bde. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 1989â91, auch Büchergilde Gutenberg (Lizenz-Ausgabe) \*\* Band 1â3: ''Das journalistische Werk'', Hrsg. von Klaus Westermann \*\*\*1. Bd, 1915-1923, 1116s.
\*Joseph Roth ''Werke'', 6 Bde. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 1989â91, auch Büchergilde Gutenberg (Lizenz-Ausgabe) \*\* Band 4â6: ''Romane und Erzählungen'', Hrsg. von Fritz Hackert \*\*\*4. Bd, 1916-1929, 1090s.
\*Joseph Roth ''Werke'', 6 Bde. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 1989â91, auch Büchergilde Gutenberg (Lizenz-Ausgabe) \*\* Band 4â6: ''Romane und Erzählungen'', Hrsg. von Fritz Hackert \*\*\*6. Bd, 1936-1940, 820s.