Joseph Roth - The Hotel Years

At this point the memory ends. The next four years are shrouded in shadow, in the thick shadow of forgetting. Later on, it transpires that my mother has no recollection of this day. Ten years later, she was unable to tell me when and to whom she had given my cradle. I wasn’t surprised, nor was I upset with her. She had merely missed the first grief of my life. She had no idea. The thing that upsets me is that she no longer knew whether it was summer or winter. By chance I was able to establish later who took the cradle and when. I must have been three years old at the time. I have the feeling that on that day, in that hour I became a grown-up — only briefly perhaps, but long enough to be sad, as sad as a grown-up, and perhaps for a better reason.

Die Literarische Welt, 17 December 1931

Académie Française, 250

aeroplanes, 220–221

agents-provocateurs, 64

Albania

European visitors, 143–145

hospitality, 147

literature, 148

love of music, 137–138

parliament, 132

telegraph wires, 135

vendettas, 129n, 138–139, 146–147, 149–150

women, 138–139, 149, 151

Albanian army, 136, 140–142

Albanian language, 147–148

Alcázar, battle of, 250

alcohol, 115

Alexander III, Czar, 103

Ankara, 132

“Annette, Madame”, 175–180

anti-semitism, 22n, 32–33, 103, 114

Apfel, Alfred, 239

Aranitas, General Jemal, 136

Astrakhan, 108, 110, 115, 117–120

Avalov-Bermont, Count, 48

Azerbaijan, 124

Baabe, 21–22

Baku, 71, 118, 121

balalaikas, 101–102, 109

Baltic coast resorts, 19–22

Bäder-Antisemitismus, 22n

Baumbach, Rudolf, 200

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 241, 250

Berlin, 47, 56, 146, 249

anti-semitism in, 33

Berlin Tiergarten, 103

Berlin University, 33

bezprizorniy (homeless children), 122

bicycles, 31

Binz, 21

Bismarck, Otto von, 244

“black shame”, 43

Boryslav, 71–72, 75, 123

Bremen, 18

Bruck-Kiralyhida, 63–65

Bruckner, Anton, 250

Budapest, 3–4, 15, 103, 132

burlaki, 114–115

cafés, 65, 82, 84, 103, 116, 197, 204–207

Astrakhan, 117–119

Kruja, 149

cafés, cont’d

Magdeburg, 34–35

Sarajevo, 85–86

Tirana, 137–138

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 245, 250

canaries, 200

castanets, 245

castor oil, 145

Catherine the Great, Empress, 104

caviar, 117–118, 120

Chaplin, Charlie, 145

Charles I (Karl), Emperor, 249

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 248n, 249–250

Chemnitz, 31

Chuvaish, 112

Cimetière Parisien de Thiais, 129n

citizens “of ill repute”, 83–84

collectivism, 112

commercial travellers, 78–79

Constantinople, 103, 249

Cossacks, stage, 101–102

couleurs, 41

Counter-Reformation, 245

curfew hours, 37

Częstochowa, 119

dachas, 123

Dekobra, Maurice, 86

Denikin, Anton, 103

Dinter, Artur, 43, 45

dogs, 7–8, 32, 222

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 101

Dresden, 32

Dreyfus, Alfred, 76, 145

Drohobycz, 123

droshkies, 111, 113, 118, 123

Dual Monarchy, 63, 91n, 137

dual-occupancy rooms, 78

Durazzo, 130, 135

Eichendorff, Joseph Freiherr von, 200

Elbasan, 148–149

Elvestad, Sven, 43

emigrants, 13–16

émigrés, Russian, 101–104

Erasmus, Desiderius, 244

exhibition spaces, 37

fairs, 79

feuilletons, xi — xii, 3–4, 221

films, “socially conscious”, 179–180

Franz Joseph I, Emperor, 67, 91–97

fraternity students, 41–42

Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia, 243–244

French Revolution, 244, 249

Freytag-Loringhoven, Professor, 41, 45

Galicia, 66–70

oil industry, 71–76, 123

Gargas, Josefova, 257–260

Gentschow, Rose, 51–53

Germany

anti-semitism, 22n, 32–33, 103

hunger, 18, 32

nationalist propaganda, 17–18, 22

press under Nazis, 234–236

railways, 29–30

unemployment, 17–18, 28, 31

Gillette razors, 134

Goebbels, Joseph, 234–236

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 241

gramophones, 79–80

Greiser, Karl, 258

Grillparzer, Franz Seraphicus, 240–250

Grock (clown), 56–58

Grünbaum, Fritz, 116

Grunewald, 197

gypsies, 54–55

Habsburgs, 91n, 92, 94, 240, 245–246, 250

Hamburg, 17–18, 47

Hamburg Gold Mark, 17–18

Heine, Heinrich, 237–241

Hitler, Adolf, 45, 239

hospitals, 216

“Hotel Kopriva”, 77–80

hotels, 9–11, 77–80, 155–159, 190–193

and commercial travellers, 78–79

the cook, 170–174

departures, 186–189

and guests’ letters, 81, 158–159, 184

Italian, 81–84

“Madame Annette”, 175–180

the old waiter, 166–169

the patron, 181–185

the “poor man”, 251–254

the receptionist, 160–165

Italy

and Albania, 131–133, 136, 141–142, 145

Fascist, 81–84

Jablonovka, 255–260

Jardins du Luxembourg, 103

Jews

Czechoslovak, 171–172

emigrants, 13–16

Russian émigrés, 103

in Soviet Union, 113–114

traders, 66, 68

Joseph II, Emperor, 244

Kadare, Ismail, 151n

Kahlenberg, the, 241

Kalmucks, 117–118

Kazan, 112

Kirghiz, 117–118

Koblenz, 43–44

Komsomol, 112–113

Königgrätz (Sadová), battle of, 243, 250

“Köpenick-iad”, 46

Korça, 137, 150

Kronstadt, 11

Kruja, 149

“Kukuruza”, 66

Kun, Béla, 64–65

Kurfürstendamm, 12, 197, 207

Le Havre, 176

League of Nations, 139

Lehár, Franz, 244

Leipzig, 31

Lemberg (Lviv), 69

Lenau, Nikolaus, 45

Lenin, Vladimir, 48, 102

Lissa, battle of, 243

Luna Park, 199

Luther, Martin, 244

Lviv, see Lemberg

Magdeburg, 34–37, 114

malaria, 129, 143, 146

mandolins, 138–139

Marseilles, 155n

matches, 60

Matteotti, Giacomo, 235

Maupassant, Guy de, 86

Metternich, Klemens von, 84

Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 102

millionaires, 10–11, 220

Minnesingers, 242

Monte Carlo, 222

morphine, 51–53

Mraznica, 74

Munich, 44–45

musicians, Albanian, 137–138

Musil, Robert, 91n

Mussolini, Benito, 82–84

Nansen passports, 102

Napoleon Bonaparte, 244, 248–249

NEP-men, 108, 110, 114

Nestroy, Johann, 250

Nicholas II, Czar, 88–90, 102

Niegoreloye border crossing, 105–107

Nizhny Novgorod, 108, 110

Nuremberg, 211

Nürnberger, Helmuth, 155n

offices, 202–203, 216

oil industry

Galician, 71–76, 123

Soviet, 121–125

Olszewska, Frau, 257

opanci shoes, 145

Paris Hippodrome, 102

Petljura, Symon, 103

Plattdeutsch, 22

Pokrovsk, 112

police and police spies

Austro-Hungarian, 64–65, 93–94, 96–97

Italian, 81–84

Soviet secret police, 114

policemen, 14, 32, 86

Albanian, 134–136, 140–141, 149

post-chaises, 220

press, German, 234–236

prostitutes, 51–53, 67

“Prussian blue”, 249

Radetzky, Joseph, 95, 243

Radetzky March, 210, 245

railway travel, 215, 218–229

railways

German, 30–32

Russian, 106

Raimund, Ferdinand, 250

Rasputin, Grigori, 104

ravens, 70

Razin, Stenka, 124

Rebner, Arthur, 116

Red Army, 107, 112, 114

Red Guards, 64–65

Red Square, 92

Reichsmark notes, 30

Roethe, Professor, 33, 41, 45

Röhm, Ernst, 235

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