Jerusalem Report

Roth's wrath

Translations of Joseph Roth's letters capture the inner man in all his rawness.

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A literary correspondence is bound to be lively when the person conducting it is “a ferocious, gifted, principled, and implacable hater.”

Take a bow, Joseph Roth: the prodigiously talented Jewish author of The Radetsky March and chronicler of the moral collapse of German-speaking Central Europe in the early decades of the 20th century. He fell out with pretty much every newspaper and publisher, which published his sharply observed feuilletons and novels.

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