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A review by fearandtrembling
On the End of the World by Joseph Roth
3.0
Joseph Roth was an Austrian Jewish writer best known for his novel, Radetzky March. This a collection of short essays written during the time of the Third Reich. Roth himself escaped to Paris on the day Hitler came to power in Germany. Each one of these pieces is short, but Roth's despair at the savagery and barbarism of what was unfolding is very raw and brutal. It's pretty chilling to read his warnings in the time of Brexit and Trump.
I was interested to learn that he was friends with Stefan Zweig. Roth's time in France was a financially-strained one and Zweig was the one to bail him out with loans when he needed it. I felt some anxiety reading these essays because of Roth's evident helplessness in the face of what he called a "dark age", compounded by being a leftist writer who was struggling to make ends meet. History repeats.
I was interested to learn that he was friends with Stefan Zweig. Roth's time in France was a financially-strained one and Zweig was the one to bail him out with loans when he needed it. I felt some anxiety reading these essays because of Roth's evident helplessness in the face of what he called a "dark age", compounded by being a leftist writer who was struggling to make ends meet. History repeats.