The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the
thunderous reception for "What I Saw," a book that has become a
classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, "What I
Saw" introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured
author with its "nonstop brilliance, irresistible charm and
continuing relevance" (Jeffrey Eugenides, "New York Times Book
Review"). As if anticipating Christopher Isherwood, the book
re-creates the tragicomic world of 1920s Berlin as seen by its
greatest journalistic eyewitness. In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most
renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the
capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of
impressionistic and political essays that influenced an entire
generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and the young
Christopher Isherwood. Translated and collected here for the first
time, these pieces record the violent social and political
paroxysms that constantly threatened to undo the fragile democracy
that was the Weimar Republic. Roth, like no other German writer of
his time, ventured beyond Berlin's official veneer to the heart of
the city, chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants: the
war cripples, the Jewish immigrants from the Pale, the criminals,
the bathhouse denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the
morgues. Warning early on of the dangers posed by the Nazis, Roth
evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy and debauched beauty a
memorable portrait of a city and a time of commingled hope and
chaos. "What I Saw," like no other existing work, records the
violent social and political paroxysms that compromised and
ultimately destroyed the precarious democracy that was the Weimar
Republic."
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