What I Saw Reports From Berlin 1920-33

In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic and political writings that influenced an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and the young Christopher Isherwood. Roth, like no other German writer of his time, ventured beyond Berlin's official veneer to the heart of the city, chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants - the Jewish immigrants, the criminals, the bathhouse denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the morgues. Warning early on of the threat posed by the Nazis, Roth evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy and debauched beauty, creating in the process an unforgettable portrait of a city.

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Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany for Paris, where he died in poverty a few years later. His books include What I Saw, Job, The White Cities, The String of Pearls, The Emperor's Tomb and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books.Michael Hofmann is a poet and German translator. His most recent collection of poems is One Lark, One Horse. He is a Granta contributing editor.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joseph Roth
• Con la collaborazione di: Michael Hofman (Traduzione), Michael Hofmann (Traduzione)
• Editore: Granta Books
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.08.2022
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945); Narrativa > Romanzi > Letteratura contemporanea (dal 1945)
• EAN: 9781783788484
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-848-4
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.9 x 19.8 x 1.3 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 162 g
• Categorie: Christopher Isherwood, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Hitler, European History, Germany, Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks, Albert Camus, Fernando Pessoa, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Chess, National Socialism, Robert Musil, Bertold Brecht, William Boyd, Nazi Party, Austerlitz, Philippe Sands, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Austro-Hungarian Empire, Metamorphosis, the stranger, The Man Without Qualities, east west street, the myth of sisyphus, any human heart, The Plague, The Trial, the ratline, authors like Stefan Zweig, Closely Watched Trains, Weimar Berlin, The Emigrants, The Magic Mountain, WG Sebald, Threepenny Opera, I Served the King of England, Beware of Pity, Best classics, The Castle, Mother Courage, Bohumi Hrabal, authors like Franz Kafka, The Book of Disquiet, best writers of the 20th century, classic European writers, best books about the Jazz Age, books about German history