Deborah Holmes
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first heard Jun 2026
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Certainly, yes.
I mean, I think one of the reasons why Josef Roth, even at this very, very dynamic period in cultural history, was able to be such an immediate success, I think it's fair to say, is that we're in – despite the end of the war and shortage of paper –
and a shortage of healthy manpower, we're still in a period that's a golden age of print media.
And the daily papers, there were scores of daily papers in each big city, each big German-speaking city, and they had two and three editions a day.
I mean, that's a lot of newspaper to fill.
And the Feuilleton was both a part of the newspaper, it was the cultural and arts section of the newspaper, but the word Feuilleton was also used to describe short texts that could be subjective, descriptive, offensive,
narrative question mark they could be purely descriptive but that photonists so erot thought of himself as a journalist but as a photonist they would churn them out day on day about anything and everything that they saw walking around the city and the idea was or the tradition was is that the style could or should be subjective and it was in the newspaper partly as a commentary and
on current affairs and on politics and business and other daily news, but also as a part of the newspaper that would outlive current affairs.
So the original Phaeton was published under a thick black line on the bottom third of the page, and the idea was that you cut off that bit of the page and kept it, because although this writing was subjective and personal, it was going to be what outlived the daily news, these little perceptions and descriptions of daily life.
Certainly.
Yeah, it's a fabulous novel.
It's of his earlier novels.
So we're talking 1924.
In 1923-24, he actually wrote and published three novels, which is also quite a considerable feat when you consider that he's, as we've said, he's churning out journalism the whole time as well.
So Rebellion, Rebellion, is actually based on a true story.
It was based on a court case from 1923 that Kyle Kraus, a famous Viennese satirist and commentator, talks about in his one-man periodical Die Fackel, so The Torch.
which saw itself as a sort of antidote to the daily press.
And Roth takes up this story.
It's about a veteran who returns from the front and he's lost a leg, but he feels totally content.
He feels that the government must know what it's doing.
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