Author
2 September 1894–27 May 1939
Austrian novelist and journalist
132 works
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Readers in conversation
Public notes, reviews, lists, and conversations around Joseph Roth.
For several months, I put off reading the emperor’s tomb for the counterintuitive reason that its opening sentences — wry and melancholic — were too good, in fact sublimely good. But I’m glad I cut short the pleasures of anticipation and picked it up when I d…
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A book about a man who has been socialized to die for the Kaiser, then finds that death means his mistress and friends rotting in the ground…before the Great War makes death so ubiquitous as to become “a matter of indifference”. Also a book about a man who is…
There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.
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