The Spider’s Web & Zipper and His Father by Joseph Roth
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Overview: Two novellas by Joseph Roth (1894–1939), an Austrian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his novel of Jewish life, Job (1930).
A work of raw and unpolished energy, The Spider’s Web is filled with Joseph Roth’s surprising political foresight and compassionate sensitivity to the tremors of a world in collapse. First published in 1923, this novella paints a chillingly realistic picture of the conspiracies of the radical right that were to undermine the Weimar Republic and pave the way for Hitler and National Socialism to take root among the disenchanted middle classes. Through the eyes of Theodor Lohse, a frustrated and disappointed veteran recently returned from the Great War, Roth shows the dark and powerful attraction of secret right-wing organizations to a man deprived of comradeship and military glory by civilian life. A terrifying parable of Germany between the wars, The Spider’s Web bears out Elie Wiesel’s observation that Roth was a visionary writer “ahead of his times.”
In contrast, Zipper and His Father (1928) is a melancholy evocation of the seedy, unsuccessful lives of lowly clerks, lounging in Viennese coffee-houses and dreaming of what might have been. In a compelling portrait of a childhood friend and his father, Roth chronicles their shared eccentricities and erratic progress in the febrile world of German cinema in the 1920s.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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