The Hotel Years (2015)
Moses Joseph Roth (Austrian German: [roːt]; 2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939) was an Austrian novelist, journalist and essayist, born into a Jewish family in Galicia in Austria-Hungary. He is widely regarded as one of the major German-language writers of the interwar period. His best-known fiction includes Job (1930), Radetzky March (1932), The Emperor's Tomb (1938) and the posthumously published novella The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1939). His nonfiction includes The Wandering Jews (1927), an extended work of reportage on eastern European Jewish migration. Roth was also one of the outstanding European journalists of the 1920s and early 1930s. A master of the feuilleton, he wrote for newspapers including the Frankfurter Zeitung, travelling as a correspondent through Germany, France, the Soviet Union, Poland, Albania and Italy. In his journalism as in his fiction he observed the upheavals of post-World War I Europe, the displacement of populations, the growth of nationalism and authoritarian politics, and the lives of people on the social and geographical margins. The destruction of Austria-Hungary in 1918 became one of the defining experiences of Roth's life and work. His later…
- Published
- 2015
- Pages
- 295
