Endless Flight
Book description
The first English language biography of the great European writer Joseph Roth, exploring his genius and his tragic life story, lived in the shadow of war.
The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an observer and chronicler…
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A touching and sympathetic biography of one of Europe’s greatest twentieth-century writers, best known as the author of The Radetzky March, and an essential introduction to his other novels (too little read in English).
We follow Roth as he flits between Europe’s cultural centres, his melancholy mood tracking the decline of the Austro-Hungarian empire. With Pim as our guide, it is impossible not to sense the fragile state of more contemporary political unions, as Roth’s plight in a way becomes our own.
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