Joseph Roth : A Life In Letters

An unforgettable portrait of the Austro-Hungarian author of The Radetzky March, this biography in letters -selected here for the first time by Michael Hofmann – is classic European literature at its finest.

The legendary Austro-Hungarian novelist and essayist, Joseph Roth, was born in Ukraine in 1894 and died tragically in Paris in 1939. These letters span the breadth of Roth's life, from the schoolboy to the veteran of 44, marked by war, poverty, alcoholism, the loss of his wife through madness, and two decades of prolific work. It is a deeply moving portrait of the life of the writer as an outsider, in exile from a world he no longer recognized as his own.