Status Updates From Hotel Savoy

Zvonimir once said: "The revolution is here."

Joseph Roth. Hotel Savoy (p. 113). Kindle Edition.

"I didn't understand what Henry Bloomfield had actually come to do. Just to let the music play? So that the ladies would come?"

Joseph Roth. Hotel Savoy (p. 99). Kindle Edition.

"Bloomfield needed a secretary while he was here. One had to be able to separate visitors into annoying and useful ones, and deal with both kinds."

Joseph Roth. Hotel Savoy (p. 92). Kindle Edition.

"God punished this city with industry. Industry is God's severest punishment."

Joseph Roth. Hotel Savoy (p. 73). Kindle Edition.

"It's been the third day that I've been standing at the train station waiting for work."

Joseph Roth. Hotel Savoy (p. 58). Kindle Edition.

My uncle Phoebus Böhlaug is standing in front and whispers to me: "You've come a long way! You are not worth more than your father! You good-for-nothing!"

Joseph Roth. Hotel Savoy (p. 48). Kindle Edition.

"No," I said, "I don't know what I am. I used to want to be a writer, but I went to war and I don't think there's any point in writing. – I am a lonely person and I cannot write for everyone."

Joseph Roth. Hotel Savoy (p. 20). Kindle Edition.

"The girl's name is Stasia. The variety program does not mention her name. She dances on cheap boards in front of local and Parisian Alexanders. She does a few turns in an oriental dance. Then she sits down with crossed legs in front of an incense burner and waits for the end."

Joseph Roth. Hotel Savoy (p. 19). Kindle Edition.

"I am happy to shed an old life again, as so often in these years. I see the soldier, the murderer, the almost murdered, the risen, the bound, the wanderer."

Joseph Roth. Hotel Savoy (p. 4). Kindle Edition.

listening to this on audiobook (obviously) and i’m so obsessed with hans korte’s voice, like the way that nothing really happens and yet i’m absolutely tuned in