ceoln reviewed Three novellas by Joseph Roth
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4 stars
How to give a rating of at most five, and always a whole number of, stars, to three lovely little character pieces by a middling-great writer from the 20s and 30s? Especially when, any second now, I'll need to indicate that I mean the 1920's and 30's, not the 2000 ones?
Europe between the First and Second World Wars isn't, I have the general feeling, a time and place that we know enough about here in the days of Twitter and Internet billionaires whimsically firing automobiles into space. Read these stories, it won't take long, and you'll acquire something in the way of a texture of that area of spacetime, and something in the way of three new pictures of the human condition. A fair payoff for such a minor investment!