Joseph Roth - Joseph Roth - A Life in Letters

St. Lazare Station in, 72–73

women of, 44, 45

Pariser Tageblatt, 445

Paris-Soir, 319, 321

patriotism, 55

Paulhan, Jean, 115

Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 93, 94, 107, 111, 247, 249, 405, 508–9

Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, 235

Pélichy, Maria Gillès de, 178–80, 184–85

PEN Club, 496, 522

PEN Club (Brussels), 482, 488, 489

PEN Club (New York), 269, 530

Perez, Itzhak Leib, 405, 406

Perlefter: The Story of a Bourgeois (Roth), 37, 130, 133, 186

Peters, Hans Otto, 188, 189–90

Pflaum, Generalkonsul, 155, 156

Phaidon Verlag, 162, 165, 171, 175

Picard, Max, 35, 80, 81, 84, 149, 160, 175–76, 177, 194, 200, 201, 205, 225, 317, 323, 341, 375, 382

Pinker, Ralph, 263, 265

Pius XI, Pope, 417, 430

Plato, 90

Plon publishing house, 196, 212, 214, 235, 290, 399, 405, 424

letter of JR to, 394–95

pogroms, xii, 195

Poiret, Françoise, 216

Poland, xii, 27, 28, 84, 87, 120, 124, 183, 230, 502

Polgar, Alfred, 317, 386

Polignac, Prince Edmond de, 254, 255

Polignac, Winaretta Singer de, 255

Polish language, 13

Pompan, Alexander “Sandi,” 167

Portugal, 520, 521

Post Office Girl (Zweig), 183

Potemkin, Grigory Aleksandrovich, 379

Poupet, Mr., 196, 202, 270, 336, 344, 367, 399

Praag, Siegfried Emanuel, 254, 255

Prager Presse, 428

Prager Tagblatt, 14, 15, 93

Prague, 15, 27, 80, 93, 94, 136, 330, 384

Praz, Mario, 327

Prensky, Eva, 183

Preussische Akademie der Künste: Sektion für Dichtkunst, 305, 307

Propyläen Verlag, 29

Protestantism, 297, 370, 431

Proust, Marcel, 28, 218

Provence, 39, 42, 48

bullfights in, 49

Prussia, 36, 39, 50, 230, 257, 279, 412, 498

Querido, Emanuel, 291, 293, 466–67

Querido Verlag, xvi, 166, 173, 257, 290, 291, 293, 300–302, 328, 330, 357, 369, 458, 459, 485, 497, 501–2

Radek, Karl, 413

Radetzky March, The (Roth), xii, 37, 171, 181, 199, 202, 208–12, 214, 219, 260, 310, 317, 358, 375, 463

French translation of, 196, 226, 229, 234, 235, 243–44, 290, 316, 409

reviews of, 217, 219, 225

royalties from, 222, 260, 263

serialization of, 191, 203

Radio Paris, 319

“Rare and ever rarer in this world of empirical facts. .” (Roth), 23, 154

Rares, Sibyl, xi

Rebellion (Roth), 28, 186, 239–40

Red Army, 221

Red Cross, 274

Reece, Mr., 329, 349, 361, 363, 427, 429

Regular, The (Roth), 422, 425, 427–28, 456, 471

Reichler, Hedi, 105, 167, 169, 173

letters of JR to, 144–45

Reichler, Jenny, 239

emigration to Palestine by, 374

letters of JR to, 104–5, 145–47, 150, 167–69, 173–74, 177–78, 187, 192, 222

Reichler, Selig, 175, 187, 259

emigration to Palestine by, 374

letters of JR to, 104–5, 145–47, 168, 177–78

Reichner, Herbert, 390–92, 404, 421, 508–9, 520, 521

Reichner-Verlag, 419, 420

Reichsbanner, 102, 103

Reichspost, 455, 456, 510

Reichsschrifttumskammer, 509, 510, 511

Reichswehr, 299, 367

Reifenberg, Benno, 35, 40, 47, 58–59, 62–64, 66, 68, 70, 76, 97, 102, 119, 166, 196, 201, 236, 296, 297

JR’s relationship with, 92–93, 175, 176, 200, 203, 272

letters of JR to, xv, 4, 33, 38–39, 43–46, 49–57, 72–73, 76–81, 83–84, 87–94, 99–100, 103–4, 107–9, 110–12, 114–15, 122–27, 129, 149, 159, 160, 188, 197, 198–99, 205–6

letters to JR from, 73–75, 95, 131, 148, 159–60, 203, 225

Reifenberg, Hans, 87

Reifenberg, Jan, 77, 84, 100, 109, 123, 148, 149, 159

Reifenberg, Maryla, 88, 100, 109, 129, 149, 159

Remarque, Erich Maria, 318

Rembrandt van Rijn, 88

Report from a Parisian Paradise (Roth), 44, 46, 73, 75, 80, 98, 101, 518

“Report from a Parisian Paradise” (Roth), 77, 80, 81

“Rest While Watching the Demolition” (Roth), 9, 101, 518

Rhone River, 43

Rieger, Erwin, 268, 269

Rieke, Aunt, 13

Right and Left (Roth), 23, 36, 116, 128, 133, 186

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 100, 162, 340

Rimbaud, Arthur, xv

Ringhofer, Walter, 527

Rio de Janeiro, xv

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 220

Rocca, Enrico, 170–71, 173

Rode, Walter, 498, 499

Roethe, Gustav, 92

Rohan, Prince Karl Anton, 105, 106

Rolland, Romain, 273, 274, 279, 280, 287, 411, 412, 413, 444, 445, 495

Romains, Jules, 440–41, 442

Romantic Agony, The (Praz), 327

Romanticism, 54, 327

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 264, 265, 530

Rosner, Mr., 347, 349

Roth (actor), 15–16

Roth, Friederike Reichler “Friedl” (wife), xii, 19, 42, 70, 89, 101, 106, 112, 155, 156, 407, 453

birth of, 26

courtship and marriage of JR and, 21–23, 26

erratic behavior of, 22, 140

hospitalization of, 26, 36, 139–40, 141, 149, 185, 204, 374–75, 421, 493

JR’s divorce of, 408

JR’s relationship with, 66, 90, 96, 104, 124, 142, 144, 145, 178, 452

letters to Paula Grübel of, 25, 27

medications of, 146

Nazi murder of, 26

personality of, 22, 26, 66

physical frailty and illness of, 22, 39, 48, 51, 104, 117–19, 132, 135–36, 139–40, 142, 146–47, 157, 167–69, 177–78, 181, 187, 192, 194, 222, 224, 230, 292, 421, 452

schizophrenia of, xi, 26, 34, 140, 144–47

stylish appearance of, 22

Roth, Joseph, 19, 31, 227

alcoholism of, 16, 160, 175, 202, 282, 291–92, 299, 350, 391, 424, 425–26, 429, 440, 444, 447, 461, 479–80, 484, 504, 517

antisocial tendencies of, 66–67, 144

articles of, 4, 33, 43, 44, 70, 87, 89–91, 114, 116, 126, 132, 142, 150, 155, 186, 204, 344, 377

artistic conscience of, 138

biography of, xvi, 3n

birth of, 3, 150, 309

book reviews of, 80

burial of, 526

celebrity of, 85, 104, 153

childhood and adolescence of, 1, 3–9, 151–52, 208

collapse and death of, 3, 87, 459, 506, 526, 531

contradictory, changeable nature of, xiv, 85

depression of, 147, 151, 188, 199–200, 338, 432–33, 437–38, 445–46, 454–55, 464–65, 468, 475–77

dissembling of, 4, 154

dreams of, 87, 151

early pacifist leanings of, 4

Eastern Jewish heritage of, xv, 3, 88, 119, 150–51, 220, 233, 247, 249–50, 266, 279, 347, 411, 461

exile of, xi — xiii, 29, 36

eye ailment of, 184–87, 197, 203, 529

feuilletons of, xiii, xvii, 33–34, 40, 43, 44–47, 49, 71, 77–79, 129

financial concerns of, 4, 9, 10–11, 21, 24, 54–55, 59, 70, 81, 83, 88, 93, 95, 104, 107, 114, 129, 139, 142, 151, 158, 160–62, 171–72, 194, 212, 421–22

generosity of, xiii, xv, 4, 361

gymnasium and university education of, 3–4, 6, 7–8, 10, 12–13, 91, 152, 207, 220, 309–10

habitual anxiety of, 3, 44–46, 49, 53, 432–33, 441–42, 467

idea of home as lifelong aversion of, 3

illnesses of, 16–17, 77, 79, 80–81, 84, 89, 109, 110–11, 125, 145, 168, 183–84, 187, 203, 315–16, 322, 466, 468–69

as an implacable hater, 137–38, 151–52

impracticality of, xiv — xv

income of, 26, 78, 84, 149, 150, 155, 159, 167, 171–72, 191, 439–40

independence and individuality of, 4, 12, 21, 186

industry and tirelessness of, xiv

intelligence of, 33

jealousy of, 22

journalism career of, xi — xii, xiii, xiv, xv, 4, 14, 22, 24, 26–27, 33–36, 72–78, 116, 148, 153, 159–63, 221

law suits against, 175

love affairs of, 178–80, 184–85, 193, 195, 196–97

military service and awards of, xi, 4, 9, 13, 14, 56, 153, 220–21