The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe between the Wars, by Joseph Roth
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The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold Antiqua letters in which its banal name is spelled out shining across the roofs of the gently banked houses are in my eye metal flags, metal bannerets that instead of fluttering shine out their greeting.In the 1920s and 30s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, leading a peripatetic life living in hotels and writing about the towns through which he passed. Incisive, nostalgic, curious and sharply observed - and collected together here for the first time - his pieces paint a picture of a continent racked by change yet clinging to tradition. From the 'compulsive' exercise regime of the Albanian army, the rickety industry of the new oil capital of Galicia, and 'split and scalped' houses of Tirana forced into modernity, to the individual and idiosyncratic characters that Roth encounters in his hotel stays, these tender and quietly dazzling vignettes form a series of literary postcards written from a bygone world, creeping towards world war; introduced and exquisitely translated by Michael Hofmann.
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- Published on: 2015-09-03
- Released on: 2015-09-03
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Review “Nonstop brilliance, irresistible charm and continuing relevance.” (Jeffrey Eugenides - New York Times Book Review)“Roth captures and encapsulates Europe in those uncertain hours before the upheaval of a continent and the annihilation of a civilization.” (Cynthia Ozick)“A singular achievement of both journalism and literature.” (Thane Rosenbaum - The Washington Post Book World)“His was a voice of uncowed conscience and irrepressible humanism, his body of work a damning j’accuse against the folly of the age. The dispatches in The Hotel Years constitute a compelling vindication of his claims for the feuilleton’s literary possibilities.” (Houman Barekat - Los Angeles Review of Books)“So consistently incisive that we devour the lot, compulsively, from cover to cover.” (Amanda Hopkinson - The Independent)“Roth was as equally magisterial and entertaining in his journalism as he was in his novels, and Michael Hofmann’s new selection of Roth’s nonfiction, his fourteenth translation of Roth’s overall, is thoroughly addictive.” (André Naffis-Sahely - Paris Review)“Dazzling, elegiac, mordant and harrowingly oracular by turn.” (George Prochnik - New York Times Book Review)“The Hotel Years is a master class in journalism, and a reminder that when a writer can play multiple small notes, he creates a full composition that carries the depth of meaning.” (Juan Vidal - NPR Books)“Roth’s 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.” (Malcolm Forbes - The American Interest)“Brilliantly perceptive, beautifully crafted and often dripping with mordant wit.” (Toby Lichtig - The Wall Street Journal)
About the Author Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He published several books and articles before his untimely death at the age of 44. Roth’s writing has been admired by J. M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Elie Wiesel, and Nadine Gordimer, among many others.For his translations, acclaimed poet Michael Hofmann has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Dublin International IMPAC Award, the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and The Schlegel-Tieck Prize (four times). He is the highly acclaimed translator of, among others, Kafka, Brecht, and Joseph Roth.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful. Hindsight is 20-20... By Jill Meyer There's a difference in reading history written as contemporaneous accounts and reading history written well after the events. The first seems more "live", even if we sometimes know what happened after the author has written his account. That's very, very true about Joseph Roth's essays in the book, "The Hotel Years".The 65 or so essays chosen by the book's editors were mostly written as newspaper pieces, between 1919 and 1939. Roth died in 1939 at the age of 45 of alcoholism, but the Austrian-Jewish journalist had made a name for himself since 1919 as an observer of culture and politics in the inter-war years.Most of the essays included were printed in the "Frankfurter Zeitung", in a Berlin newspaper, and in two papers that I think were German-language papers published in Paris. But the articles would be printable in any newspaper, at least up til 1936 or so. Roth rarely seemed to write about specific events, though in 1934 he wrote about a journalist's job in reporting "The Night of the Long Knives". No, in general, Roth seemed to write about places he traveled - Albania and the Soviet Union, among others - and the people he met along the way, and the hotels he stayed in. Since he rarely identified which hotels they were, it's difficult to know where they were located. One hotel, though, sounds like a less wacky cousin of Wes Anderson's "Hotel Budapest", with it's international staff and clientele.To return, though, to my point about reading contemporaneous history. I noticed that WW1 was always referred to as "The Great War", though I'd be surprised if Roth didn't think another world war was on its way. His writing in the early 1920's already referred to "Nazis" and "swastikas". It's too bad that Joseph Roth didn't live longer; I wonder what his impressions of the world of WW2 would be in print. But maybe it's better he didn't live longer. His writing in these selected essays is truly worth reading by anyone interested in the inter-war years.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A Gem of a Book By Ilka K. List This is a fascinating book of short "feuilleton" essays that in interesting ways characterize Germany and Poland in the years between WW 1 and WW2.. Roth describes the quality of life in cities in many countries as he travels and absorbs the atmosphere, the political situation, the life of the people. Although seemingly simple the essay are deep in emotional impact.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Enrich Your Soul and Life -- Read Joseph Roth. By M.B. I have read this beautifully-crafted book two times. One cannot get enough of Joseph Roth. What a despicable shame that everyone in our poorly educated populace knows who a Kardashian is, but the name of Joseph Roth echoes in oblivion. He was a magnificent, poignant, prescient writer. The story of his life and death will break your heart. I so hope that the brilliant translator, Michael Hofmann, will translate/write Mr. Roth's biography. There isn't a scrap of Joseph Roth's writing that should remain unknown.
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