- Published: 03/01/2013
- ISBN: 9781847083418
- 129x20mm
- 576 pages
Joseph Roth
Joseph Roth
Translated by Michael Hofmann
The legendary Austro-Hungarian novelist and essayist, Joseph Roth, was born in Ukraine in 1894 and died tragically in Paris in 1939. These letters span the breadth of Roth’s life, from the schoolboy to the veteran of 44, marked by war, poverty, alcoholism, the loss of his wife through madness, and two decades of prolific work. It is a deeply moving portrait of the life of the writer as an outsider, in exile from a world he no longer recognized as his own.
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Fascinating... [An] all-inclusive picture of what it was like to be a writer who only understood the world when he was writing - and wrote magically beautiful books when he did
Julian Evans, Sunday Telegraph
A Life in Letters, impeccably translated and edited by the poet Michael Hofmann, offers a vivid picture of Roth the man... A grand tribute to one of the most grievously disappointed literary geniuses of the 20th century
Ian Thomson, Daily Telegraph
A wonderful selection... Engage with one of the most beguiling and intuitive minds that 20th-century literature has produced