Report from a Parisian paradise
Subtitle: essays from France, 1925-1939
By: Joseph Roth ; translated with an introduction by Michael Hofmann ; based on an original German selection by Katharina Ochse
Contributors: Hofmann, Michael, 1957 Aug. 25-; Ochse, Katharina
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780393051452; 9780393327168
Subjects: Social conditions; Social life and customs
Work titles: Im Bistro nach Mitternacht
Description: "Joseph Roth, the greatest newspaper correspondent of his age, left the splintering Weimar Republic for France in 1925 and produced, until his death in 1939, some of the finest writing of his career. Collected here for the first time, Roth's essays form an unrivaled portrait of France in the late 1920s and 1930s - a society at a twentieth-century crossing point - resolute in its desire to preserve a past that was already crumbling while at the same time drawn to the seductive rhythms of urban life. Roth describes a world where the center could not hold - a portrait of a country unknowingly barreling toward social collapse and political anarchy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: First Impressions; title: In the French Midi; title: The White Cities; title: The Wandering Jews; title: In the Bistro After Midnight.