EAN: 9781783785117

ENDLESS FLIGHT - KEIRON PIM TASCHENBUCH

The mercurial  self-mythologizing novelist and journalist Joseph Roth  author of the
20th-century masterpiece The Radetzky March  was the finest observer and chronicler of his age.
Endless Flight travels with Roth from his childhood in the town of Brody on the eastern edge of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire to an unsettled life spent roaming Europe between the wars 
including spells in Vienna  Paris and Berlin. His decline mirrored the collapse of civilized
Europe: in his last peripatetic decade  he opposed Nazism in exile from Germany  his wife
succumbed to schizophrenia and he died an alcoholic on the eve of WWII. Exploring the role of
Roth's absent father in his imaginings  his attitude to his Jewishness and his restless search
for home  Keiron Pim's gripping account of Roth's chaotic life speaks powerfully to us in our
era of uncertainty  refugee crises and rising ethno-nationalism. Published as Roth's works
rapidly gain new readers and recognition  Endless Flight delivers a visceral yet sensitive
portrait of his quest for belonging  and a riveting understanding of the brilliance and beauty
of his work.

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