What I Saw Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

Name: What I Saw Reports from Berlin 1920-1933
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ISBN: 9780393325829

ISBN-10: 0393325822

ISBN-13: 9780393325829

Edition: N/A

Authors: Joseph Roth, Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann

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Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Joseph Roth is the author of such classics as The Radetzky March and The Emperor's Tomb. He died in Paris in 1939.

Michael Hofmann won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for Roth's The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth.



Translator's Introduction



What I Saw



Going for a Walk



The Jewish Quarter



The Orient on Hirtenstrasse



Refugees from the East



Solomon's Temple in Berlin



Wailing Wall



Displaced Persons



Nights in Dives



With the Homeless



The Steam Baths at Night



Schiller Park



The Unnamed Dead



Traffic



The Resurrection



The Ride Past the Houses



Passengers with Heavy Loads



Some Reflections on Traffic



Affirmation of the Triangular Railway Junction



Berlin Under Construction



Skyscrapers



Architecture



The Very Large Department Store



"Stone Berlin"



Bourgeoisie and Bohemians



The Man in the Barbershop



Richard Without a Kingdom



The Word at Schwannecke's



The Kurfurstendamm



Berlin's Pleasure Industry



The Philosophy of the Panopticum



An Hour at the Amusement Park



The Twelfth Berlin Six-Day Races



The Conversion of a Sinner in Berlin's UFA Palace



The Berlin Pleasure Industry



An Apolitical Observer Goes to the Reichstag



The Tour Around the Victory Column



A Visit to the Rathenau Museum



Election Campaign in Berlin



An Apolitical Observer Goes to the Reichstag



Farewell to the Dead



Look Back in Anger



The Auto-da-Fe of the Mind


Credits and Sources


Index


About the Author


About the Translator