“The Radetzky March” is Joseph Roth's masterpiece. Everyone's pretty much in agreement about that. They're also in agreement that it's one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. If you don't know about it, here's what you’re missing, and why I took so long to get to it.
Tag: Ostend
To wish the world into otherness
"Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark" by Volker Weidermann and translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway tells the story of one summer when Austrian authors Zweig and Roth took refuge at the seaside resort. Wonderful history captured in a small, gem of a book.
The Longest Chapter 