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100 1 $aRoth, Joseph,$d1894-1939.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80009832
240 10 $aJoseph Roth in Berlin.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002040049
245 10 $aWhat I saw :$breports from Berlin, 1920-1933 /$cJoseph Roth ; translated with an introduction by Michael Hofmann ; German selection by Michael Bienert.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $a227 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
520 1 $a"When the twenty-six-year-old Joseph Roth arrived in the war-shattered city of Berlin in 1920, he produced a series of impressionistic and political essays that would influence an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and, later, the young Christopher Isherwood.
520 8 $aTranslated by Michael Hofmann and collected here for the first time in English in What I Saw, Roth's essays record the violent social and political paroxysms that threatened to undo the precarious democracy that was the Weimar Republic.".
520 8 $a"Roth, who considered himself not just a reporter but also a poet who "paints portraits of an age," began his career when he traveled with the Austrian army during the First World War. A leading foreign correspondent for various Austrian and German papers, he contributed pieces from cities all over Europe throughout the 1920s and 1930s while at the same time writing novels that would bring him international acclaim.
520 8 $aAs demonstrated in What I Saw, the feuilleton or short essay form allowed Roth to "say true things on half a page" in a biting, economical style.".
520 8 $a"Against the traditional portrayal of Berlin as an entrepot of fun and transport, of government, nightlife, and literary glamour, Roth's gritty depiction chronicles the lives of the city's forgotten inhabitants: the war cripples, the Jewish immigrants from the Pale, the criminals, the bathhouse denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the morgues."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aBerlin (Germany)$xSocial life and customs.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114405
651 0 $aBerlin (Germany)$xSocial conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114412
651 0 $aBerlin (Germany)$xPolitics and government.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013352
651 0 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1918-1933.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054639
651 0 $aBerlin (Germany)$xIntellectual life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114408
650 0 $aCrime$zGermany$zBerlin$xHistory$y20th century.
700 1 $aHofmann, Michael,$d1957 August 25-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00023432
700 1 $aBienert, Michael,$d1964-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92100192
852 00 $bglx$hDD866$i.R6813 2003