Live reports from Vienna, 1919–1920.
This book is made up of a collection of newspaper reports about Vienna written by the well-known Austrian author Joseph Roth (1894–1939) in 1919–1920. In the 1920s, Roth the reporter was far better known than Roth the novelist, and that is hardly surprising: before the advent of the internet, newspaper readership was in the millions and by far exceeded the number of book lovers, limited to thousands.
Joseph Roth (1894–1939) was an Austrian novelist. He studied at the University of Lviv and the University of Vienna and fought in the First World War. From 1918 to 1933 he was a journalist in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Vienna. His debut novel The Spider’s Web (1923), which depicts far-right war veterans preparing for a coup, was serialized in Austrian newspapers. In 1924 he published his novels Hotel Savoy and The Rebellion, and in 1926 he went on a long journey around the USSR. His best-known novel, Radetzky March, was published in 1932.
