Report From a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France, 1925-1939

At ONE TIME an underground hero in the world of journalism, with prose on a par with Tolstoy and Kafka. Joseph Roth now looms large in the pantheon of European literature. Indeed, the last five years have seen a major Roth revival culminating in "Report from a Parisian Paradise, a haunting epitaph by the greatest foreign correspondent of his age. An exile in Paris, Roth captured the essence of France in the 1920s and 1930s. From the port town of Marseille to the erotic hill country around Avignon, "Reports from a Parisian Paradise-- superbly translated by Michael Hofmann--paints the sepia-tinted landscapes, enchanting people, and ruthless desperation of a country hurtling toward dissolution. Roth's book is not only a paean to a European order that could no longer hold but also a miraculous and revelatory work of transcendent philosophical clarity.Joseph Roth is the author of 'Report From a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France, 1925-1939', published 2005 under ISBN 9780393327168 and ISBN 0393327167.