Shortly after Hitler’s rise to power, in February 1933, Roth wrote in a prophetic letter to his friend, the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig:
You will have realized by now that we are drifting towards great catastrophes. Apart from the private — our literary and financial existence is destroyed — it all leads to a new war. I won’t bet a penny on our lives. They have succeeded in establishing a reign of barbarity. Do not fool yourself. Hell reigns.
Fiction
The Spider’s Web – 1923
Hotel Savoy – 1924
The Rebellion – 1924
April: The Story of a Love Affair – 1925
The Blind Mirror – 1925
Flight without End – 1927
Zipper and His Father – 1928
Right and Left – 1929
The Silent Prophet -1929
Job -1920
Perlefter -1920
Radetzky March -1932
Fallmerayer the Stationmaster -1933
The Antichrist – 1934
Tarabas – 1934
The Bust of the Emperor – 1934
Non-Fiction
The Wandering Jews – 1927
What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933
The White Cities: Reports from France, 1925–39
Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters – 2012
The Hotel Years – 2015