
Report From a Parisian Paradise
Essays from France, 1925-1939
Description
The wisdom of a lost generation distilled in a bottle of Calvados.
At one time an underground hero in the world of journalism, with prose on a par with Tolstoy and Kafka, Joseph Roth now looms large in the pantheon of European literature. Indeed, the last five years have seen a major Roth revival culminating in Report from a Parisian Paradise, a haunting epitaph by the greatest foreign correspondent of his age. An exile in Paris, Roth captured the essence of France in the 1920s and 1930s. From the port town of Marseille to the erotic hill country around Avignon, Report from a Parisian Paradise—superbly translated by Michael Hofmann—paints the sepia-tinted landscapes, enchanting people, and ruthless desperation of a country hurtling toward dissolution. Roth's book is not only a paean to a European order that could no longer hold but also a miraculous and revelatory work of transcendent philosophical clarity.
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Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann
Paperback, 2015
The first overview of all Joseph Roth’s journalism: traveling across a Europe in crisis, he declares,“I am a hotel citizen, a hotel patriot.”

Joseph Roth, Richard Panchyk
Hardcover, 2015
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Hardcover, 2012
The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Roth—with Kafka, Mann, and Musil—in the twentieth-century literary canon.

Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann
Paperback, 2004
"[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers."—Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Paperback, 2020
Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael Hofmann
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Hardcover, 2020
A windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann

Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Hofmann
Paperback, 2020
An extraordinary masterpiece of German literature, now in a gripping new English translation

Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann
Paperback, 2015
The first overview of all Joseph Roth’s journalism: traveling across a Europe in crisis, he declares,“I am a hotel citizen, a hotel patriot.”

Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann
Hardcover, 2012
The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Roth—with Kafka, Mann, and Musil—in the twentieth-century literary canon.
Also By: Michael Hofmann 
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Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann
Paperback, 2020
Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael Hofmann
![]()
Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach, Michael Hofmann
Hardcover, 2020
A windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann

Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Hofmann
Paperback, 2020
An extraordinary masterpiece of German literature, now in a gripping new English translation

Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann
Paperback, 2015
The first overview of all Joseph Roth’s journalism: traveling across a Europe in crisis, he declares,“I am a hotel citizen, a hotel patriot.”

Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann
Hardcover, 2012
The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Roth—with Kafka, Mann, and Musil—in the twentieth-century literary canon.