Deborah Holmes
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
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And I think that sort of underlines or cements this sort of turning to alcohol to find relief for that.
And then comes National Socialism, which Roth had very early on seen coming with a clear-sightedness that's very interesting compared to others of his generation who were hoping that it wouldn't be as bad as all that.
You know, it's kind of all together, it's enough to make anyone turn to drink, perhaps.
Surprisingly well.
It's about the human cost of war and it's about individual dignity.
He also said he was a Frenchman from the East.
Yes, he had various ways of characterising himself.
I think the differences are very interesting.
I think it's a very fruitful comparison for the literature of the time.
One of the things that Zweig does that Roth doesn't, as we said, is that Zweig has heroes.
Zweig has goodies and baddies and Zweig has heroes and he hero-worships.
And that's not something that Roth does at all.
Roth is much, much more... He's ironic in a way that Stefan Zweig seemingly can't or doesn't want to achieve.
Roth's timing was unfortunate, though, wasn't it?
I mean, in a typically kind of Rothian fashion, it's to do with chance and contingency.
And Radetzky March could have been an immense success, but it came out just before the National Socialists took over, was it?
You know, it was a lot...
They still do in my... Yes, let's put that in a different tense.
Yeah, but it was very much, it's partly to do with the problems of the time.
It was difficult to heat your house at home, you know, in the immediate post-war period.
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