Joseph Roth- a Life in Letters
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PEN Club, 496, 522
PEN Club (Brussels), 482, 488, 489
PEN Club (New York), 269, 530
Perez, Itzhak Leib, 405, 406
Perlefter: The Story of a Bourgeois (Roth), 37, 130, 133, 186
Peters, Hans Otto, 188, 189–90
Pflaum, Generalkonsul, 155, 156
Phaidon Verlag, 162, 165, 171, 175
Picard, Max, 35, 80, 81, 84, 149, 160, 175–76, 177, 194, 200, 201, 205, 225, 317, 323, 341, 375, 382
Pinker, Ralph, 263, 265
Pius XI, Pope, 417, 430
Plato, 90
Plon publishing house, 196, 212, 214, 235, 290, 399, 405, 424
letter of JR to, 394–95
pogroms, xii, 195
Poiret, Françoise, 216
Poland, xii, 27, 28, 84, 87, 120, 124, 183, 230, 502
Polgar, Alfred, 317, 386
Polignac, Prince Edmond de, 254, 255
Polignac, Winaretta Singer de, 255
Polish language, 13
Pompan, Alexander “Sandi,” 167
Portugal, 520, 521
Post Office Girl (Zweig), 183
Potemkin, Grigory Aleksandrovich, 379
Poupet, Mr., 196, 202, 270, 336, 344, 367, 399
Praag, Siegfried Emanuel, 254, 255
Prager Presse, 428
Prager Tagblatt, 14, 15, 93
Prague, 15, 27, 80, 93, 94, 136, 330, 384
Praz, Mario, 327
Prensky, Eva, 183
Preussische Akademie der Künste: Sektion für Dichtkunst, 305, 307
Propyläen Verlag, 29
Protestantism, 297, 370, 431
Proust, Marcel, 28, 218
Provence, 39, 42, 48
bullfights in, 49
Prussia, 36, 39, 50, 230, 257, 279, 412, 498
Querido, Emanuel, 291, 293, 466–67
Querido Verlag, xvi, 166, 173, 257, 290, 291, 293, 300–302, 328, 330, 357, 369, 458, 459, 485, 497, 501–2
Radek, Karl, 413
Radetzky March, The (Roth), xii, 37, 171, 181, 199, 202, 208–12, 214, 219, 260, 310, 317, 358, 375, 463
French translation of, 196, 226, 229, 234, 235, 243–44, 290, 316, 409
reviews of, 217, 219, 225
royalties from, 222, 260, 263
serialization of, 191, 203
Radio Paris, 319
“Rare and ever rarer in this world of empirical facts . . .” (Roth), 23, 154
Rares, Sibyl, xi
Rebellion (Roth), 28, 186, 239–40
Red Army, 221
Red Cross, 274
Reece, Mr., 329, 349, 361, 363, 427, 429
Regular, The (Roth), 422, 425, 427–28, 456, 471
Reichler, Hedi, 105, 167, 169, 173
letters of JR to, 144–45
Reichler, Jenny, 239
emigration to Palestine by, 374
letters of JR to, 104–5, 145–47, 150, 167–69, 173–74, 177–78, 187, 192, 222
Reichler, Selig, 175, 187, 259
emigration to Palestine by, 374
letters of JR to, 104–5, 145–47, 168, 177–78
Reichner, Herbert, 390–92, 404, 421, 508–9, 520, 521
Reichner-Verlag, 419, 420
Reichsbanner, 102, 103
Reichspost, 455, 456, 510
Reichsschrifttumskammer, 509, 510, 511
Reichswehr, 299, 367
Reifenberg, Benno, 35, 40, 47, 58–59, 62–64, 66, 68, 70, 76, 97, 102, 119, 166, 196, 201, 236, 296, 297
JR’s relationship with, 92–93, 175, 176, 200, 203, 272
letters of JR to, xv, 4, 33, 38–39, 43–46, 49–57, 72–73, 76–81, 83–84, 87–94, 99–100, 103–4, 107–9, 110–12, 114–15, 122–27, 129, 149, 159, 160, 188, 197, 198–99, 205–6
letters to JR from, 73–75, 95, 131, 148, 159–60, 203, 225
Reifenberg, Hans, 87
Reifenberg, Jan, 77, 84, 100, 109, 123, 148, 149, 159
Reifenberg, Maryla, 88, 100, 109, 129, 149, 159
Remarque, Erich Maria, 318
Rembrandt van Rijn, 88
Report from a Parisian Paradise (Roth), 44, 46, 73, 75, 80, 98, 101, 518
“Report from a Parisian Paradise” (Roth), 77, 80, 81
“Rest While Watching the Demolition” (Roth), 9, 101, 518
Rhone River, 43
Rieger, Erwin, 268, 269
Rieke, Aunt, 13
Right and Left (Roth), 23, 36, 116, 128, 133, 186
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 100, 162, 340
Rimbaud, Arthur, xv
Ringhofer, Walter, 527
Rio de Janeiro, xv
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 220
Rocca, Enrico, 170–71, 173
Rode, Walter, 498, 499
Roethe, Gustav, 92
Rohan, Prince Karl Anton, 105, 106
Rolland, Romain, 273, 274, 279, 280, 287, 411, 412, 413, 444, 445, 495
Romains, Jules, 440–41, 442
Romantic Agony, The (Praz), 327
Romanticism, 54, 327
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 264, 265, 530
Rosner, Mr., 347, 349
Roth (actor), 15–16
Roth, Friederike Reichler “Friedl” (wife), xii, 19, 42, 70, 89, 101, 106, 112, 155, 156, 407, 453
birth of, 26
courtship and marriage of JR and, 21–23, 26
erratic behavior of, 22, 140
hospitalization of, 26, 36, 139–40, 141, 149, 185, 204, 374–75, 421, 493
JR’s divorce of, 408
JR’s relationship with, 66, 90, 96, 104, 124, 142, 144, 145, 178, 452
letters to Paula Grübel of, 25, 27
medications of, 146
Nazi murder of, 26
personality of, 22, 26, 66
physical frailty and illness of, 22, 39, 48, 51, 104, 117–19, 132, 135–36, 139–40, 142, 146–47, 157, 167–69, 177–78, 181, 187, 192, 194, 222, 224, 230, 292, 421, 452
schizophrenia of, xi, 26, 34, 140, 144–47
stylish appearance of, 22
Roth, Joseph, 19, 31, 227
alcoholism of, 16, 160, 175, 202, 282, 291–92, 299, 350, 391, 424, 425–26, 429, 440, 444, 447, 461, 479–80, 484, 504, 517
antisocial tendencies of, 66–67, 144
articles of, 4, 33, 43, 44, 70, 87, 89–91, 114, 116, 126, 132, 142, 150, 155, 186, 204, 344, 377
artistic conscience of, 138
biography of, xvi, 3n
birth of, 3, 150, 309
book reviews of, 80
burial of, 526
celebrity of, 85, 104, 153
childhood and adolescence of, 1, 3–9, 151–52, 208
collapse and death of, 3, 87, 459, 506, 526, 531
contradictory, changeable nature of, xiv, 85
depression of, 147, 151, 188, 199–200, 338, 432–33, 437–38, 445–46, 454–55, 464–65, 468, 475–77
dissembling of, 4, 154
dreams of, 87, 151
early pacifist leanings of, 4
Eastern Jewish heritage of, xv, 3, 88, 119, 150–51, 220, 233, 247, 249–50, 266, 279, 347, 411, 461
exile of, xi–xiii, 29, 36
eye ailment of, 184–87, 197, 203, 529
feuilletons of, xiii, xvii, 33–34, 40, 43, 44–47, 49, 71, 77–79, 129
financial concerns of, 4, 9, 10–11, 21, 24, 54–55, 59, 70, 81, 83, 88, 93, 95, 104, 107, 114, 129, 139, 142, 151, 158, 160–62, 171–72, 194, 212, 421–22
generosity of, xiii, xv, 4, 361
gymnasium and university education
of, 3–4, 6, 7–8, 10, 12–13, 91, 152, 207, 220, 309–10
habitual anxiety of, 3, 44–46, 49, 53, 432–33, 441–42, 467
idea of home as lifelong aversion of, 3
illnesses of, 16–17, 77, 79, 80–81, 84, 89, 109, 110–11, 125, 145, 168, 183–84, 187, 203, 315–16, 322, 466, 468–69
as an implacable hater, 137–38, 151–52
impracticality of, xiv–xv
income of, 26, 78, 84, 149, 150, 155, 159, 167, 171–72, 191, 439–40
independence and individuality of, 4, 12, 21, 186
industry and tirelessness of, xiv
intelligence of, 33
jealousy of, 22
journalism career of, xi–xii, xiii, xiv, xv, 4, 14, 22, 24, 26–27, 33–36, 72–78, 116, 148, 153, 159–63, 221
law suits against, 175
love affairs of, 178–80, 184–85, 193, 195, 196–97
military service and awards of, xi, 4, 9, 13, 14, 56, 153, 220–21
morality of, xiv, 201
Moses as given name of, 3–4, 7, 77, 81
Muniu “Mu” as childhood nickname of, 3, 7–9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 28, 145, 150
novellas of, 60, 186, 244, 328, 344, 377, 378
novels of, xi, xii, xiii, 4, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 36–37, 85, 90, 92–93, 94, 95, 99–100, 101, 115–16, 124, 127–28, 132, 138, 186, 196, 221, 377
Old World courtesies of, xiv, xv, 7, 154, 156
only-child status of, 3
peripatetic working life of, xii, xv, 22, 48, 70, 83–92, 99, 159, 168, 171, 174, 310
personal documents of, 124
physical appearance of, 232–33
poetry of, 4, 10–11, 14, 39
press reports on, 84, 85
pride and shame of, 3
as prisoner of war, 221, 310
professed Catholicism of, 85, 88, 266, 411–12
as “red Roth,” xv
responsiveness to public events of, 137
reviews of works by, 105, 118, 217, 219, 221, 314
rhetorical power of, 27
self-confidence of, 154
self-description of, 85, 88, 138, 150–54, 211–12, 411–12
short stories of, xiii, 11, 16, 23, 500
snobbery of, 154
socialism of, 26
very late writing of, 9, 196, 236
Roth, Miriam (mother), xi, 3, 6, 150–51, 220, 309
Roth, Nahum (father), xi, 34, 151, 220, 309, 310
Rotter, Alfred and Fritz, 251
Rouen, 72–73
Rouen Cathedral, 73
Rowohlt, Ernst, 71, 72
Rowohlt publishing house, 72, 160
royalism, 207
Ruhr Valley, 71, 104, 158
Ruppel, Dr., 154–55
Russia, xii, 4, 22, 35, 56, 79, 82–92, 102–3, 129, 130, 137, 155, 157, 166, 250, 289, 372, 379–80
censorship in, 83, 85, 204
culture and religion of, 82, 86, 380
JR in, 83–92
“Russia Goes to America” (Roth), 380
Russian language, 42, 91, 380
Russian Revolution, 82, 337
Saarbrückener Zeitung, 111
Saarland, 103, 104, 112, 128
Sabatier, Mr., 425, 426, 435
Sad Affair, A (Koeppen), 407
Saenger, Samuel, 303, 307, 308
St. Cloud, 72
St. Denis Cathedral, 72
Salammbô, 386
Salomon, Gottfried, 81
Salt of the Earth (Wittlin), 13
Salzburg, 116, 141, 143–47, 159, 230, 324, 331–32, 337–38, 491–92
Sammlung, Die, 255, 276, 279, 295, 298, 299, 300, 302, 329, 330, 372, 501
Sarnetzki, Detmar, 156, 157
Schacherl, Dr., 145–46, 157, 163
Schaubühne, 205
Schenk, Baroness von, see Szajnocha, Helena von
Scheyer, Dr., 158
Scheyer Moritz, 170
Schickele, René, xiii, xv, 276, 294–95, 384, 408, 441, 443, 444
letters of JR to, 141–43, 198, 295–97, 308, 371–72, 387–88, 390, 407–8
letter to JR from, 302–7
Schiller, Friedrich von, 220
Schleicher, Kurt von, 304, 307
Schloss, Sibylle, 407
Schmiede, Die, 23, 28–29, 65, 96, 166
Schneider, Rudolf, 49
Schoenberner, Franz, letter of JR to, 286
Schönfeld, Herr, 26
Schotthöfer, Fritz, 56, 57, 74, 79, 149
Schottländer, Mr., 346
Schubert, Franz, 49
Schuschnigg, Kurt von, xiv, 383–84
Schutzbund, 331, 332
Schutzstaffel (SS), 307
Schwabendorf, see Brody
Schwannecke’s literary café, 71
Schwarzenbach, Annemarie, 294, 295
Schwarzschild, Leopold, 281, 282, 331
Schweigsame Frau, Die (Strauss), 224, 370, 371
Second International, 48, 50
Seelig, Carl, letters of JR to, 269–70, 285, 317, 322–23, 325, 341, 350, 366, 375, 382, 385–86, 388–89
Seine River, 38
Sergeant Grisha (A. Zweig), 205
Sèvres, 72
Sèvres-Ville d’Avray, 72
S. Fischer Verlag, 17, 37, 109, 110, 111, 112, 117, 118, 127–28, 160, 195, 247, 259, 283, 303
Shakespeare, William, 194, 217, 218, 437
Shanghai, xv, 23, 513
shtetls, 14
Siberia, 124, 130, 131, 155, 156
Sieburg, Friedrich, 34, 63, 65, 74, 75, 77–79, 93, 112, 194, 237, 298–99
Silent Prophet, The (Roth), 37, 127, 128, 138, 186
Simon, Heinrich, 47, 48, 55–56, 59, 64, 66, 67, 88, 90, 93, 98, 100, 148, 165–66, 200, 205, 429
Skoglund Verlag, 477
Skubl, Michael, 523
Snick, Els, Dr. 179
Sochaczewer, Hans, 201
Social Democratic Party, 48, 50, 56, 57, 63, 311, 313, 383, 415
socialism, 26, 47–48, 279, 383, 414
Socialist Democratic Congress, 47–48, 50
Song of Bernadette, The (Werfel), 242
Sonnemann, Leopold, 42, 43, 48
Sorbonne, 309
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe), 123
Sourire, Le, 73, 75
Southern California, University of, 96
Soviet Union, xii, 82–93, 277
show trials in, 413, 444
Spain, 74, 76, 79, 174
Spanish Civil War, 349
Spiegel, Der, 195
SPO, 332
Sport und Bild (Zarek), 209–10
Städel museum, 189, 190
Stahl, Dr., 42, 50, 51, 55, 76
Stalin, Joseph, 413, 510
Starhemberg, Ernst von, 254, 255
Stark, Oskar, 40, 41
“Stationmaster Fallmerayer” (Roth), 23, 224, 244, 259
Steiner, Erna, 329
Steinhof sanatorium, 374–75
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), 121
Steppenwolf (Hesse), 326
Sternberg, 14
Sternburg, Wilhelm von, 179
Sternheim, Carl, 438
Sternheim, Thea, 438, 451
Stols, Mr., 470–71
Strasbourg, 103, 167–68, 320
Strauss, Richard, 224, 370–71, 397, 400, 402–3, 404
“Strawberries” (Roth), 420, 425
Streicher, Julius, 306, 307, 417, 520
Stresemann, Gustav, 71
Stürgkh, Count Friedrich, 48, 50
Stürmer, Der, 307
Swing, The (Kolb), 327, 378–79
Switzerland, xiii, 65, 221, 226, 249, 269, 280–81, 294, 388, 423, 526
Szajnocha, Helena von, 14, 16, 17, 25, 27, 28, 124, 144–45, 183
JR influenced by, 15
Szvaby, 309, 310
Tagebuch, Das, 175, 331
Tal, Ernst P., 121, 129, 160, 357, 508–9
Tale of the 1002nd Night, The (Roth), 493, 502, 504, 525
Talmud, 246, 451
Tarabas, a Guest on This Earth (Roth), 257, 288, 301, 314, 317, 318, 325, 341, 346, 366, 476
Tardieu, Mrs., 215–16
Tartarins, 131, 132
Taunus, 194
Tbilisi, 84
Temps, Le, 240, 285–86, 378
Thérive, André, 240, 241, 326–27
Thompson, Dorothy, 189, 269, 398, 531
Ticino, 119, 340
Toller, Ernst, 85, 86–87, 205
letters to JR from, 96
suicide of, 87, 506
Tolstoy, Leo, 121, 130, 380, 438
Torczyner, Pume, 25
Toscanini, Arturo, 48, 368, 371, 376, 512, 514, 515
Trahison des Clercs (Benda), 114
Trebitsch-Lincoln, Ignaz, 334, 335
Tristan (Mann), 104
Triumph and Tragedy of Erasmus of Rotterdam (Zweig), 291, 293, 294, 332, 342, 355, 358, 364–65, 376, 378, 381, 473, 515
Triumph of Beauty, The (Roth), 196, 333, 336, 378
Trost des Volkes (Asch), 405–6
Trotsky, Leon, 138, 305
Tschuppik, Karl, 498, 499
Tucholsky, Kurt, 68, 148, 204, 205, 251, 279, 391
Turkestan-Siberian Railway, 155, 156
Tynan, Kenneth, xvii
typhoid epidemic of 1916, 152
Uhl, Willo, 49–50, 52
Ukraine, 84, 85
Ulitz, Arnold, 118, 119
Ullstein Verlag, 60, 76, 77, 80, 93, 95, 96, 97, 102, 103, 157
Under the Volcano (Lowry), xvii, 516–17
United States, 79, 82–83, 124, 150, 167, 174, 194, 195, 307, 376, 395
Urania Club, 490
U.S. News & World Report, 65
Vallentin, Antonina, 190, 286, 327–28, 334
Valois publishing house, 185
van Alfen, Philip, 450, 451, 453, 455
van de Meer, Mr., 462
Vatican, 430
Vaugoin, Karl, 254, 255
Vehmic murder, 442
Venice in Vienna, 5, 12, 13
Verband der Bücherfreunde, 111
Verdun, 74
Versailles, 72, 195
Vienna, xii, 4, 5, 9–17, 21, 22, 26, 27, 47, 56, 92, 94, 103–5, 121–26, 147, 151, 153, 200, 221