The Hotel Years [Paperback]

This wonderful selection of journalism from the Weimar years, a period Roth spent in Paris, Germany and on the road, displays genius from every angle, as a rebel, a loyalist and a man of compassion.Roth's journalism creates a vivid sense of a continent on the brink of change.Nonstop brilliance, irresistible charm and continuing relevance.Joseph Roth has emerged as one of the greatest, certainly the most prescient, of the German writers of the entre-deux guerres'.Joseph Roth: his view arises from the deepest human pity everywhere. I cannot imagine how he does this except instinctively. He is incomparable.I love going back to Joseph Roth. He's one of the best journalists who ever lived and certainly an amazing writer and novelist. His book called The Hotel Years are articles he wrote about staying in hotels, mostly in eastern Europe as it then was in the last days of the Austrian Habsburg Empire. I love his style of observation and his descriptions of characters and so on. I always feel enriched when I put down a book by Joseph Roth.Roth captures and encapsulates Europe in those uncertain hours before the upheaval of a continent and the annihilation of a civilization.A singular achievement of both journalism and literature.His was a voice of uncowed conscience and irrepressible humanism, his body of work a damning jaccuse against the folly of the age. The dispatches inSo consistently incisive that we devour the lot, compulsively, from cover to cover.Roth was as equally magisterial and entertaining in his journalism as he was in his novels, and Michael Hofmanns new selection of Roths nonfiction, his fourteenth translation of Roths overall, is thoroughly addictive.Dazzling, elegiac, mordant and harrowingly oracular by turn.Roths hotel years came to an abrupt end in the Old World. Thankfully, his account of them, and of the turbulent cross-currents of his age, live on in exquisite collections such as this one.Brilliantly perceptive, beautiló