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Joseph Roth - Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

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Who would have thought that seventy-three years after Joseph Roths 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 Roths calamitous lifehis fathers madness, his wifes 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 Roths life, this book brilliantly evokes the crumbling specters of the Weimar Republic and 1930s France. Displaying Roths ceaselessly inventive powers, it finally charts his descent into despair at a time when the word had died, [and] men bark like dogs.

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BY JOSEPH ROTH Report from a Parisian Paradise Essays from France 19251939 - photo 1

BY JOSEPH ROTH

Report from a Parisian Paradise Essays from France 19251939 What I Saw - photo 2

Report from a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France, 19251939

What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 19201933

The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth

The Wandering Jews

Rebellion

The Tale of the 1002nd Night

Right and Left and The Legend of the Holy Drinker

Job: The Story of a Simple Man

The Emperors Tomb

Confession of a Murderer

The Radetzky March

Flight Without End

The Silent Prophet

Hotel Savoy

Tarabas

The Antichrist

Weights and Measures

Zipper and His Father

The Spiders Web

Frontispiece Joseph Roth on a railway platform somewhere in France in 1925 - photo 3

Frontispiece: Joseph Roth on a railway platform, somewhere in France, in 1925.

For my friend Rosanna Warren Contents Joseph Roth age thr - photo 4

For my friend Rosanna Warren

Contents

Joseph Roth age three Joseph Roths student ID at t - photo 5

Joseph Roth age three Joseph Roths student ID at the University of Vienna - photo 6

Joseph Roth age three Joseph Roths student ID at the University of Vienna - photo 7

Joseph Roth, age three

Joseph Roths student ID at the University of Vienna Joseph Roths military - photo 8

Joseph Roths student ID at the University of Vienna

Joseph Roths military training company Friedl Roth with dog Joseph Roth - photo 9

Joseph Roths military training company

Friedl Roth with dog Joseph Roth in Paris with two friends from Brody - photo 10

Friedl Roth with dog

Joseph Roth in Paris with two friends from Brody Joseph Roth with the - photo 11

Joseph Roth in Paris, with two friends from Brody

Joseph Roth with the trademark newspaper Joseph Roth with Heinrich Wagner - photo 12

Joseph Roth with the trademark newspaper

Joseph Roth with Heinrich Wagner Joseph Roth with Bernard von Brentano in - photo 13

Joseph Roth with Heinrich Wagner

Joseph Roth with Bernard von Brentano in the Jardin du Luxembourg Paris - photo 14

Joseph Roth with Bernard von Brentano in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris

Joseph Roth in Albanian folkloric costume in 1927 in Albania Joseph Roth - photo 15

Joseph Roth in Albanian folkloric costume, in 1927 in Albania

Joseph Roth with Friedl in Berlin in 1922 Joseph Roth with Paula Grbel and - photo 16

Joseph Roth with Friedl in Berlin, in 1922

Joseph Roth with Paula Grbel and a friend Joseph Roth in the company of - photo 17

Joseph Roth with Paula Grbel and a friend

Joseph Roth in the company of Dutch writers in a caf in Amsterdam in 1937 A - photo 18

Joseph Roth in the company of Dutch writers in a caf in Amsterdam in 1937

A signed portrait of Joseph Roth Introduction N othing to parents but - photo 19

A signed portrait of Joseph Roth

Introduction

N othing to parents but Joseph Roth never saw his father Nahum who went mad - photo 20

N othing to parents but Joseph Roth never saw his father Nahum who went mad - photo 21

N othing to parents (but Joseph Roth never saw his father, Nahum, who went mad before he knew he had a son, and reacted to his overproud and overprotective mother, Miriam, or Maria, to the extent that he sometimes claimed to have her pickled womb somewhere). Nothing to his wife (poor, bewitching Friedl Reichler, who after six years of a restless, oppressive, and pampered marriage disappeared into schizophrenia, and left him to make arrangements for her, and pay for them, and wallow in the guilt and panic that remained). Nothing to the lovers and companions of his last yearsthe Jewish actress Sibyl Rares, the exotic half-Cuban beauty Andrea Manga Bell, the novelist Irmgard Keun, his rival in cleverness and dipsomanianothing to perhaps his very best friends (with such a protean, or polygonal character as Roths, who contrived to present a different aspect of himself to everyone he knew, its hard to tell for sure)Stefan Fingal, Soma Morgenstern, Joseph Gottfarstein. Except to family, very fewinitially, I had the sense, none at allin the intimate Du form, and most of those there are, ironically, to near-strangers, because they had served, as he had, briefly, in the Austrian army, where it was form to address a brother officer, even if one didnt know him from Adam, as Du . Very few earlybarely a dozen before 1925, when Roth, thirty, a married professional, a published novelist, and an experienced vagrant already on to his third country and maybe his fourth newspaper, gets his big break as a journalist, in Paris, for the liberal Frankfurter Zeitung . Very little explicitly or frontally about aesthetics, ambition, writing, shop (references to the novels, when he does talk about them, are so grudgingly or airily unspecific, its often impossible to be sure which one of them hes talking about). Little in the way of chat, description, narrative, confession, or scandalthis was a man with books to write, and columns to fill.

So why read them? If they have little bearing on his literary output, and are not even addressed to the people who mattered most in his life? Well, to get a sense, first of all, and in the absence of a biography in English, of the stations of the mans life, his classic westward trajectory (like that of Flight Without End or The Wandering Jews ) from the Habsburg crown land of Galicia just back of the Russian border, on the edge of Europe if not of the civilized world, in quick, brief stages to Vienna, to Berlin and Frankfurt, and then to Parisa sort of schizoid Paris, first (in 1925) the paradisal place of the fulfillment of hopes and dreams, and then, after 1933, the locus of exile, disappointment, trepidation, punishment. It was like day and night. And, within the context of that broad, simple, westward movement, the endless, frenetic stitching back and forth among Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam to wherever he had temporarily pitched his tents; the long, journalistic visits to the south of France in 1925, to the Soviet Union in 1926, Albania and the Balkans in 1927, and Italy and Poland in 1928; the many tours the length and breadth of the German regions throughout the 1920s, for what became a sort of dreaded and dispiriting enemy terrain to which his newspaper bosses were quite deliberately dispatching their acutest, most high-strung war correspondent (the atmosphere in one particular town, Roth noted, was like that five minutes before a pogrom); the number of places (eleven, by my count) where he stopped to compose his masterpiece, The Radetzky March , between 1930 and 1932, on the face of it, his most comfortable circumstances ever, with a monthly retainer, less journalism, and Friedl cared for; and then the places of exile, where one has to picture him practically as a mendicant, borrowing or scrounging train fare, leaving Paris for Amsterdam to haggle over a newand newly ruinouspublishing contract, or for Marseille because there was the prospect of free accommodation, albeit of a sort detested by this self-described hotel patriot, or Ostend, so that he might have daily access to his, alas, always pedagogically minded patron, Stefan Zweig. This swarming movement is one of the points of these letters.

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