5/26/2023 0 Comments The radetzky march by joseph rothAnd, as he admits in his acknowledgments, he does not speak fluent German. He has previously published two books, one a work of popular science on dinosaurs, the other a biography of David Litvinoff, a figure associated with 1960s London. Pim is not the obvious candidate for the role of Roth biographer. Pim is here to see what the pandemic prevented him from seeing when he was writing his book: Roth’s Vienna. And he has recently produced the first English-language biography of Joseph Roth, the ingenious, agonized, alcoholic Austro-Hungarian journalist and novelist, chronicler of the last years of the Hapsburg empire and the rise of fascism in Europe. He’s a soft-spoken 44-year-old writer from Norwich, England, self-described as someone who blinks a lot. Pim flew into Vienna only a few hours before. VIENNA - In the last glowing light of a warm October day, a group of Viennese 20-somethings slaps a volleyball back and forth in front of an old Nazi flak tower.
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