The Hotel Years

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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 09/29/2015
ISBN: 9780811224871
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/27/2015
New York Times Book Review 09/06/2015 pg. 16