![]() ![]() ![]() When I turned to the German faculty library at Cambridge for more titles, I found they had only one book of his, which was a compilation of scenes, excerpts, highlights from his books, a sort of Greatest Hits. I was studying English, but even if I'd been doing modern languages, I suspect I wouldn't have come across him either. I was in my mid-20s, a student, and to me as to most people, (possibly even most people in Germany) Roth was an unhappy or a neglected homonym of the more widely known Americans, Philip and Henry. I wrote about a novel called Weights and Measures and then about another one called Job. I read Roth initially because I was asked to review him in the early 1980s. ![]() There was one Amazon, who was called Penthesilea, and one Franz Ferdinand, who was a casus belli. When I first read Roth, things were very different. If you look up the Austrian writer Joseph Roth on Amazon, after a minute or two you'll be referred to the Scottish band Franz Ferdinand. ![]()
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