This volume brings together a selection of articles Joseph Roth dedicated to Berlin in the 1920s. In them, the novelist and journalist masterfully recreates the peculiar atmosphere that reigned in the German capital during the Weimar Republic. He is as interested in the department stores, public parks, and the nascent entertainment industry as he is in the means of transportation, the poor neighborhoods where Jewish immigrants lived, the Turkish baths, and the dives frequented by petty criminals. "I draw the face of time," he once said, referring to his work as a reporter. Nothing could be more true: from reading these texts, the vast majority of which were previously unpublished in Spanish, written between 1920 and 1933 and published in various newspapers, a powerful portrait emerges of a restless and dazzling metropolis at one of the most critical moments in its history.
