The Hotel Years

Resumen del libro

The first overview of all Joseph Roth's journalism: traveling across a Europe in crisis, he declares, I am a hotel citizen, a hotel patriot.

The Hotel Years gathers sixty-four feuilletons: on hotels; pains and pleasures; personalities; and the deteriorating international situation of the 1930s. Never before translated into English, these pieces begin in Vienna just at the end of the First World War, and end in Paris near the outbreak of the Second World War. Roth, the great journalist of his day, needed journalism to survive: in his six-volume collected works in German, there are three of fiction and three of journalism. Beginning in 1921, Roth wrote mostly for the liberal Frankfurter Zeitung who sent him on assignments throughout Germany - the inflation, the occupation, political assassinations - and abroad, to the USSR, Italy, Poland and Albania. And always: I celebrate my return to lobby and chandelier, porter and chambermaid.

Biografía del autor

Joseph Roth nació en la provincia austríaca de Galitzia en 1894, de padres judíos. Estudió literatura y filosofía en Lemberg y en Viena. Tras servir en la Primera Guerra Mundial, trabajó como periodista, alcanzó un notable éxito con su escritura, y es considerado uno de los grandes autores en lengua alemana. Murió exiliado en París en 1939.