Volume 50, Number 6 · April 10, 2003
Goodbye to Berlin
By Neal Ascherson
What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920–1933
by Joseph Roth,translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann
Norton, 227 pp., $23.95
The rediscovery of Joseph Roth by the English-speaking world is almost complete. A variety of publishers in Britain and the United States have brought out his novels, in new translations, culminating last year with Michael Hofmann's superb rendering of Roth's masterpiece The Radetzky March.[1] In the United States, Overlook Press has brought out much of Roth's fiction, and this year publishes Confession of a Murderer, Flight Without End, and Job in paperback.[2] Now comes a selection of Roth's nonfiction, columns and sketches which appeared in half a dozen German newspapers in the years of the Weimar Republic.
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