Links to websites and pages relating to Roth and his work, or of general interest. Many are in German.
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JOSEPH
ROTH PAGES
Click HERE to link to the existing German Joseph Roth homepage
(www.josephroth.de); includes an interesting essay on Roth's life and times, and
lists most of the films based on Roth's work.
Click HERE to link to Kiepenheuer & Witsch,
Roth's German publisher.
Click HERE
to link to the website of Granta books, who publish a range of Roth's books in
English.
Click HERE for a complete listing of the Joseph Roth Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. It includes manuscripts, letters, photographs, newspaper cuttings, posthumous tributes and reviews, and other material. Click on 'Search the Catalog', and perform a simple search, entering 'Joseph Roth Collection' under 'Keywords'.
Click
HERE to link to the Joseph Roth stamp
issued by the Austrian post office in Roth's centenary year 1994.
Click
HERE to link to Roth's entry in the online Oesterreich-Lexikon.
Click HERE to link to a biographical overview and a brief
account of Roth's 1930 novel Hiob.
Click HERE to link to a brief account of
Roth's work on a page dedicated to 'Eastern European Literature'. Be warned however
- the same site declares that Kafka's woork has 'no ideas' and grades it (honestly)
'C+'!
Click HERE to link to a short bibliography and career summary,
compiled as part of a German school's database of author biographies.
Click HERE to link to a Finnish page (in
English), featuring a short biography and bibliography, and links to other pages
on greats such as Tolstoy, Musil, Flaubert.
Click HERE to link to a nicely composed essay on Roth by his
translator Michael Hofmann, on what appeals to him about Roth's work and his enduring
appeal to readers.
Click HERE
for another essay by Michael Hofmann considering the special place of
Radetzkymarsch in Rothus oeuvre, published in Granta magazine,
Winter 2002.
Click HERE for a page providing information about Roth's relationship
with the novelist Irmgard Keun, his friend and companion towards the end
of his life.
Click HERE for the homepage of the Joseph Roth Diele in Berlin, a literary cafe named in honor of Roth.
ONLINE
RESEARCH
Click HERE to link to Getrude Durosoy's essay
'Seelische Beheimatung und Drang zur Flucht bei Joseph Roth' from the Internet
journal Trans.
Click HERE to link to a bibliography of Roth's
work in Bulgarian, from Trans. Includes extracts from Bulgarian reviews (in German).
Click HERE to link to Dieter Schrey's interesting Hiob site, 'Bausteine zur Interpretation'.
Click HERE to link to Michael Bornkessel's essay 'Heimat und
Fremde: Migration und ihre interkulturelle erzählerische Inszenierung' (Hauptseminar
project essay, Cologne University)
GENERAL
FEATURES, ESSAYS
Click HERE to link to an article from
Die Zeit about
Roth's home town Brody (now in the Ukraine).
Click HERE to link to a 1999 article from the
Guardian drawing
on Joseph Roth as part of a consideration of the tensions within multi-national
states in the aftermath of the Kosovo conflict.
Click HERE to view a rather odd horticultural art work dedicated
to Roth, entitled 'Kapuzinergruft als Kapuzinerkresse - Blueten fuer
Joseph Roth'.
ONLINE
REVIEWS
NB - The New York Times now prefer you to rregister to access their full site + archive, and the links will only get you to the registration page. Please search the site for the specific review - these sites chance the locations of such pages too often for me to provide direct links. It is free - you simply provide your e-mail address. Additionally, the US supreme court has forbidden the publication of reviews where there was no explicit agreement with the author permitting electroic publication. This means that NYT no longer provides reviews predating 1996. A shame, as there were quite a few of Roth's books.
Click HERE for James Wood's review from the
Guardian
of the English translation of Die Rebellion (Rebellion).
Click HERE for the same review published by
The New Republic.
Click HERE for a review of The Tale of the 1002nd Night
from the
New York Times. By Michiko Kakutani.
Click HERE for a review of The Tale of the 1002nd Night
from the
New York Times Book Review. By Iain Bamforth.
Click HERE to link to a review from 'Das Literaturcafe' of
Joseph Roth's Berlin articles, published as Joseph Roth in Berlin
in 1996. By Ulrich Struve.
Click HERE to link to the Berliner Zeitung's review of Joseph Roth in Berlin.
By Ingrid Feix.
Click HERE for a review of Rebellion from the
New York Times. By Peter Filkins.
Click HERE for Adam Mars-Jones's review of The Wandering
Jews, from The Guardian, 24 December 2000.
Click HERE for James Buchan's review of What I saw: Reports from Berlin, from the Guardian, 8 March 2003.
Click HERE to link to a fascinating site about Brody, Roth's home town.
Click HERE to link to an excellent, well-researched and neatly composed website dedicated to the life of Hermann Kesten, Roth's close friend and the first editor of his work after the War.
GERMAN STUDIES RESOURCES
/ LINKS
Click
HERE for the home page of
the Goethe Institut.
Click HERE for the home page of the Austrian Cultural Forum (London).
Click
HERE for Swansea University's comprehensive
links pages to German Studies resources, maintained by Duncan Large.
Click HERE to link to Germanistik.net, an extensive collectioin
of links maintained by Alan Ng.
Click HERE to link to the German Studies links maintained
by Doris Eh, Barbara Koenig and Ulrich Goerdten at the Freie Universitaet Berlin.
Click HERE to link to the site maintained by Kindlers Literatur
Lexikon.
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