John Hughes

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In Our Time · Joseph Roth · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

It's based on personal experience in the novel.

So the novel ends with... I should say that the other thing that haunts the character is the fact that he's abandoned the disabled son when the family moved to America, all of which results in him essentially turning his back on his Jewish identity, his faith...

He rages at the God in whom he's always believed at the end of the novel.

But unusually, Farood, and different to Rebellion, he gives us a twist, a happy ending, a rather sentimental turn of events at the end.

So the abandoned son, Menuhim, turns out has miraculously recovered from his disabilities, has grown up to become a successful composer and musician, and he's on tour in America.

And so the novel ends up with the two men being reunited and gives us this happy ending.

Roth, I think, had some doubts about that sentimentality.

It is very, very.

It's really quite shocking.

He didn't quite disown the novel, but he was a bit reluctant to sort of praise it.

But he was happy that it was a success because the ending was a winner for readers.

And as you mentioned, Marlene Dietrich, in an interview in 1931, I think, with an American film magazine, she was asked for her favourite novel and she named Job.

which had just appeared in English translation.

And Roth was so delighted he wrote to her to thank her.

And so that's a nice little story.

I don't want to over... As a theme in the work, I think probably yes.

And certainly in terms of his personal life and his view of the world.

Yes.

I mean, I think in the later years, he starts to think of the old empire in near utopian terms at times.

And it's a way, I think, of compensating for the world that was collapsing around him.

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