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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Hotel Savoy: Early example of a "nostos"By Earl R. AndersonJoseph Roth's "Hotel Savoy" (1924) is a well-written novel; the style might be described as "concise simplicity." After spending time in Russia as a prisoner of war, the German protagonist returns home to the textile- manufacturing city of Lodz (the town is not named). There he gets an unwelcome reception, as all returning veterans do. Jobs are scarce; there is labor-unrest, and unemployed people blame their misfortune on the veterans, the "homecomers." The protagonist lives on the sixth floor of the seven-story Hotel Savoy, which figures as a microcosm of society. The ending is quite dramatic. I won't spoil it. The novel is a "nostos" (plural "nostoi"), a Greek word for "return," meaning a postwar homecoming story. The best-known example of this story-type is the "Odyssey," about Odysseus's ten-year journey home from the Trojan war. When he arrives at his family estate in Ithaca, he finds it occupied by forty unwelcome suitors, most of whom he slays under the cover of an archery contest. Greek epic and tragedy had many examples of nostoi, although few have survived. The classical model for "Hotel Savoy" is Aeschylus's "Agamemnon": Agamemnon returns home to Mycenaea and receives a hypocritically false welcome; he is murdered in his bath by his wife Clytemnestra, and his cousin Aegistos, who became her lover during Agamemnon's ten-year absence at Troy. At one point Roth includes an allusion to Agamemnon and Clytemnestra--indicating his awareness of the parallel and of "nostos" as a story-type. The "nostos" as a genre deserves more attention than it has received. So far as I know, the "nostos" was first revived as a genre in fiction of the Great War. The earliest example known to me is Joseph Roth's "The Spider Web" (1923). A later "nostos" by Roth is "Flight Without End" (1927). An American example is William Faulkner's "Soldier's Pay" (1926); there may be others. The best known example of Great War "nostoi" is Erich Maria Remarque's "The Road Back" (1931). If there are examples of nostoi from World War II and Korea, I am not aware of them. So far as I know, the next batch of nostoi comes in fiction and memoirs of the Vietnam War. The principle examples are George Davis's "Coming Home" (1972--second Vietnam War book published by and African-American author), Tim O'Brien's "Northern Lights" (1975), Ron Kovic's "Born on the Fourth of July" (1976), Larry Heinemann's "Paco's Story" (1979), and Frederick Downs's "Aftermath" (1984). The "nostos" theme is rather secondary in "Northern Lights," but powerfully expressed in "Born on the Fourth of July" and "Paco's Story." In the latter, Heinemann seems to use Remarque's "The Road Back" as a source. For example, a principle character in "The Way Back," Ernst, reappears as Ernest, the owner of Texas Lunch in "Paco's Story.""Nostos" as a genre also appears in historical fiction and in films -- all later than the Vietnam War nostoi, and almost certainly influenced by them. Joseph Roth has been unfairly neglected in criticism. He's been compared to Franz Kafka--except that Kafka was careless with much of his fiction and didn't bother to edit it. Roth is scrupulous about matters of style, and is much easier to read as a result. It hasn't been mentioned in criticism that Roth was the author of the first two Great-War nostoi, "The Spider Web" and "Hotel Savoy."

A critically acclaimed early work from the author of The —one of the most significant literary German novels ever writtenAfter the end of World War I, Gabriel Dan is released from a POW camp in Russia and begins making his way home to Austria. He comes to an industrial town in Poland, and checks in the ramshackle Hotel Savoy while awaiting financial aid from his family. Here he meets a kaleidoscope of characters, a microcosm of society in which rich and poor, itinerants, dissidents, and malcontents live lives of hope, expectancy, and despair in an atmosphere pregnant with revolutionary fervor.

About the AuthorJoseph Roth (1894–1939) was an Austrian novelist best known for his family saga Radetzky March and for his novel of Jewish life, . He fought in the Austrian army in World War I, and worked as a novelist and journalist in Frankfurt, becoming a leading Jewish intellectual of the era. With the rise of Nazism, he lived the rest of his life in exile. Jonathan Katz is the translator of The Lake of the Bees.

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