The White Cities: Reports from France 1925-1939

The White Cities: Reports from France 1925-1939

by Michael Hofmann (Translator), Michael Hofmann (Translator), Joseph Roth (Author)

Synopsis

Joseph Roth, the greatest European newspaper correspondent of his age, left the splintering Weimar Republic for Paris in 1925 and, as an Austrian Jew, was exiled there for the rest of his life. Collected together here for the first time in English, these exhilarating pieces evoke a world of suppleness, beauty and promise. From the port town of Marseilles to the Riviera of Nice and Monte Carlo, to the exotic hill country around Avignon, from the socialist workers and cattlemen with whom Roth ate breakfast, to prostitutes and Sunday bullfighters, The White Cities is not only a swan song to a European order that could no longer hold but also a beautifully crafted and revelatory work.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 01 Aug 2013

ISBN 10: 1847086209
ISBN 13: 9781847086204
Book Overview: 'The White Cities collects fifteen years of incomparable reportage... What Roth sees is always arresting, often atrocious, usually absurd... A journalism which is equal parts Baudelaire, Dickens and Kafka' Scotland on Sunday

Author Bio
JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany for Paris, where he died in poverty a few years later. His books include What I Saw, Job, The White Cities, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books. MICHAEL HOFMANN is the highly acclaimed translator of Joseph Roth, Wolfgang Koeppen, Kafka and Brecht, and the author of several books of poems and book of criticism. He has translated nine previous books by Joseph Roth. He teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville.