Hotel Savoy

by Joseph Roth

Overview

Joseph Roth: Hotel Savoy Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2020 Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Theodor Borken Vorabdruck: 9. Februar bis 16. März 1924 in der Frankfurter Zeitung. Erstdruck: Die Schmiede, Berlin 1924. Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Theodor Borken. Berlin 2020. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Józef Mehoffer, Róza Saronu, 1923. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt. Henricus Edition Deutsche Klassik UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783847843641
Publisher:	Henricus
Publication date:	01/11/2020
Pages:	94
Sales rank:	1,159,342
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.23(d)
Language:	German

About the Author

Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the eastern borders of the Hapsburg Empire. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. He died in Paris in 1939, leaving behind 13 novels, including The Radetzky March (1932), as well as many stories and essays.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Superb Roth: witty, elegant, invariably honing in on the point where history trickles down to the level of the individual character and turns into fate." (The Nation)

Editorial Reviews

Released from a Russian POW camp at the end of WW I, a former soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army puts up at the gigantic Hotel Savoy on his way home. He tells the beautiful Stasia that he wanted to be a writer but the war intervened and now he sees no point in it. ``I am a solitary person,'' he says, ``and cannot write for the public.'' Joseph Roth (18941939) might have said that of himself. As a journalist, he was a public person, and highly visible as an anti-Nazi exile living in France. But as a writer, he left behind at his death a large unpublished oeuvre of 13 novels and numberless stories and essays. Only in recent years have his translated novels been appearing here. In the current miscellany, consisting of the title novella and two stories, the Savoy is the way station for the chaotic postwar world. In this swarming pageant of drifters, money is the universal obsession, while the Bolshevik revolution explodes in the background. Roth's considerable gift lay in sketching myriad personal convulsions in that time of conflagration. (December)

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