Report from a parisian paradise. Essays from France 1925-1939

Joseph Roth, left the splintering Weimar Repblic for France in 1925 and produced, until his death in 1939, some of the fines writing of his career. Collected here for the first time, Roth´s essays form an unrivaled portrait of France in the late 1920´s and 1930´s resolute in its desire to preserve a past that was already crumbling while at the same time drawn to the seductive rhytms of urba life.