Helen Chambers
speaker
180 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
Helen Chambers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But Rote, he needed the money.
He got big advances, but he often didn't deliver in time.
He commanded a lot of money.
But he spent a lot of money and he didn't just spend it on himself.
He was always giving money away, giving it away to people who were worse off than him, exiles, emigres, refugees.
And he also, when he had money, he would live in poverty.
in smart hotels.
He liked the smart hotels.
He liked the Hotel Bristol in Vienna.
He liked the Hotel Foyot where he ended up.
Well, he didn't end up in Paris because, and this is part of Roth's fate, that his worlds were destroyed one after the other.
And this included the Hotel Foyot where he had a room which is just opposite the Jardin de Luxembourg, a fine hotel.
Anyway, it turned out that it was not fit for purpose there.
And it was demolished.
So where he'd been living for years was demolished.
Before his very eyes, he sat in the cafe across the road.
But he worked.
I don't know if I've answered.
I mean, he drank all day and he needed to drink in order to work.
And he did work at cafe tables and he needed people around him to work.
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