{"product_id":"what-i-saw-reports-from-berlin-1920-33-joseph-roth","title":"What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-33 - Joseph Roth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic of reportage: Roth's compassionate, incisive account of Berlin in the 1920s, chronicling the moral bankruptcy of the Jazz Age and the rising threat of fascism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic and political writings that influenced an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and the young Christopher Isherwood. Roth, like no other German writer of his time, ventured beyond Berlin's official veneer to the heart of the city, chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants - the Jewish immigrants, the criminals, the bathhouse denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the morgues.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWarning early on of the threat posed by the Nazis, Roth evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy and debauched beauty, creating in the process an unforgettable portrait of a city.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939) was a prolific journalist and novelist. One of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, his work traces the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the rising fascist threat in Europe. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany for Paris, where he died in poverty a few years later. His books include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat I Saw, Job, The White Cities, The String of Pearls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Radetzky March\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, all published by Granta Books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGranta Publishing 2013, paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44408162517061,"sku":"203687","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/9997\/3445\/files\/what-i-saw-reports-from-berlin-1920-33-joseph-roth-whatisaw-6231820.jpg?v=1765819267","url":"https:\/\/shop.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au\/products\/what-i-saw-reports-from-berlin-1920-33-joseph-roth","provider":"Sydney Jewish Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}