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Informationen zum Autor Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was an Austrian novelist best known for his family saga Radetzky March and for his novel of Jewish life! Job. He fought in the Austrian army in World War I and worked as a novelist and journalist in Frankfurt! becoming a leading Jewish intellectual of the era. With the rise of Nazism! he lived the rest of his life in exile. Klappentext A collection of Joseph Roth's journalism from the moment preceding what looked to be Hitler's inevitable domination of Europe. Hitler's barbarism, the Second World War and other dynamics of the period represented for Roth the irreversible destruction of the pan-European consciousness. Zusammenfassung Having fled to Paris in January 1933! on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany! Joseph Roth wrote a series of articles in that 'hour before the end of the world'! that he foresaw was coming and which would see the full horror of Hitler's barbarism! the Second World War and most crucially for Roth! the final irreversible destruction of a pan-European consciousness. Incisive and ironic! the writing evokes Roth's bitterness! frustration and morbid despair at the coming annihilation of the free world while displaying his great nostalgia for the Hapsburg Empire into which he was born and his ingrained fear of nationalism in any form.
