Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Keiron Pim
Granta, £25, 544 pages
It is easiest to imagine Joseph Roth – the most elegaic writer of interwar Europe – hunched over some Stammtisch and scribbling. Whether as a young aspiring author in the newborn Austrian republic, or as the august and dazzlingly talented sot of his later years in exile, Roth appears clearest in the mind’s eye amidst the chatter and clatter of the grand cafés of Vienna and Paris, against a backdrop of marble and mirrors and polished bar-tops, drink in hand.
