Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters, a 500-page collection of his correspondence, "edited and translated and footnoted -- yes, above all, it seems, footnoted" by Michael Hoffman is now out, and in The Guardian Hoffman writes about the master, ten of whose books he has now translated, in I learned to see Joseph Roth as his own solar system
See also the publicity pages from Granta Books and W.W.Norton, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
No Roth titles are under review at the complete review because I read them all long before I started the site, but maybe I'll revisit them at some point in the future (though, I must say, I'll be doing so in the original German, avoiding Hofmann's renderings); Hofmann is certainly write to note that:
See also the publicity pages from Granta Books and W.W.Norton, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
No Roth titles are under review at the complete review because I read them all long before I started the site, but maybe I'll revisit them at some point in the future (though, I must say, I'll be doing so in the original German, avoiding Hofmann's renderings); Hofmann is certainly write to note that:
Everything he wrote is worth my time and anyone's.