by Joseph Roth, Stefan Zweig · ACANTILADO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416011360
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“Germany is dead. For us, it is dead. It has been a dream. See it once, please!”. This is how Joseph Roth addresses his great friend Stefan Zweig in this revealing correspondence. Through their letters, they share literary interests, intellectual affinities, personal advice, and sentimental confessions. Roth, with his insight, anticipates the destiny that awaits him with the rise of National Socialism and goes into exile, while Zweig tries to compromise in vain, until he is convinced that he must emigrate. This collection of letters is a testimony to the commitment of two great European writers to reason and the values of humanism in turbulent times.
Moses Joseph Roth was a Austro-Hungarian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life Job (1930) and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft", a fragmented account of the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the 21st century, publications in English of Radetzky March and of collections of his journalism from Berlin and Paris created a revival of interest in Roth.
