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