The Hotel Years

The Hotel Years

 

Also by Joseph Roth

FICTION

The Emperor’s Tomb

The Collected Shorter Fiction of Joseph Roth

Rebellion

The String of Pearls (The Tale of the 1002nd Night)

Right and Left

The Legend of the Holy Drinker

Job: The Story of a Simple Man

Confession of a Murderer

The Radetzky March

Flight Without End

The Silent Prophet

Hotel Savoy

Tarabas

The Antichrist

Weights and Measures

Zipper and His Father

The Spider’s Web

The Leviathan

The Hundred Days

NON-FICTION

Report from a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France, 1925–1939

The Wandering Jews

What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920–1933

Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

Contents

Translator's Introduction

Map: Europe between the wars

THE HOTEL YEARS

Envoi

1. A Man Reads the Paper

I Germany

2. Of Dogs and Men

3. Millionaire for an Hour

4. The Umbrella

5. The Emigrants’ Ship

6. The Currency-Reformed City

7. Baltic Tour

8. Melancholy of a Tram Car in the Ruhr

9. Smoke Joins up the Towns

10. Germany in Winter

11. Retrospect of Magdeburg

II Sketches

12. The Fraternity Member

13. Guillaume the Blond Negro

14. Adventurers

15. The Mother

16. Rose Gentschow

17. Two Gypsy Girls

18. Grock

19. The Dapper Traveller

III Austria and Elsewhere

20. Bruck and Kiralyhida

21. Journey through Galicia: People and Place

22. The Polish California

23. Hotel Kopriva

24. The All-Powerful Police

25. Where the World War Began

26. The Opened Tomb

*27. His K. and K. Apostolic Majesty

IV USSR

28.