- Summary
- Having fled to Paris in 1933 following Hitler's rise to power in Germany, Joseph Roth wrote a series of articles in that "hour before the end of the world" which he foresaw was to come and that would culminate in World War II. This collection has never before been translated into English. Incisive and ironic, the writing evokes Roth's bitterness and despair at the coming annihilation of the free world while displaying his great nostalgia for the Hapsburg Empire into which he was born and his ingrained fear of nationalism in any form. Detailing the duplicities and criminalities of the Nazi regime, Roth denounced the terror sewn by Nazi storm troopers, the propaganda of Goebbels, the round ups, the assassinations, and the construction of concentration camps, alongside the seeming blindness of the rest of Europe, which appeared paralyzed in the face of Nazi expansion. Following the Anchluss in 1938, Roth, isolated in Paris, sunk into morbid alcoholism which lead to his death the following year. Within 12 months the Germans had overrun Paris. -- Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Variant Title
- Joseph Roth on the end of the world
Roth on the end of the world
- Series
- On
On (London, England)
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939.
- Published
- London : Hesperus Press Limited, 2013
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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Machine generated contents note: The Dream of a Carnival Night
Exchange of Children
The Death of German Literature
The Third Reich
Agency of Hell on Earth
National Pyromania
God in Germany
In Lieu of an Article
Pitiless Combat
Europe Is Only Possible Without the Third Reich
The Myth of the German Soul
Requiem Mass
Orator of Apocalypse
Letter to a Governor
The Vienna Prater
The Inexpressible
The Muzzling of German Writers
Rest While Viewing the Demolition
When Heroes Tremble
In the Bistro after Midnight
Proof of Ancestry in the Isolation Cell
Exhibition
A Truly Free City
Our Homeland, our Epoch
The Fall of Austria
The Execution of Austria
From the Black and Yellow Journal
12-13th March 1939.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Stone, William, 1966-
- Notes
-
Translated from the German.
Machine generated contents note: The Dream of a Carnival Night -- Exchange of Children -- The Death of German Literature -- The Third Reich -- Agency of Hell on Earth -- National Pyromania -- God in Germany -- In Lieu of an Article -- Pitiless Combat -- Europe Is Only Possible Without the Third Reich -- The Myth of the German Soul -- Requiem Mass -- Orator of Apocalypse -- Letter to a Governor -- The Vienna Prater -- The Inexpressible -- The Muzzling of German Writers -- Rest While Viewing the Demolition -- When Heroes Tremble -- In the Bistro after Midnight -- Proof of Ancestry in the Isolation Cell -- Exhibition -- A Truly Free City -- Our Homeland, our Epoch -- The Fall of Austria -- The Execution of Austria -- From the Black and Yellow Journal -- 12-13th March 1939.