biography
pronunciation:
[roht]
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| lived:
| (1894–1939)
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| biography:
| Novelist, short-story writer, and critic, born in Brod, WC Slovenia (formerly Brody, Austria–Hungary). He studied German literature at Lemberg and Vienna before volunteering for active service in the Austrian army in World War 1. He wrote for various newspapers after the War, notably the Frankfurter Zeitung, for which he travelled extensively. His writing was influenced by both French and Russian Realism, and he was one of the most important exponents of New Functionalism. The political involvement, which is obvious in such early novels as Das Spinnennnetz (1923) and Hotel Savoy (1924), turned into resignation at the reality of post-revolution Russia, effectively portrayed in Die Flucht ohne Ende (1927). He emigrated in 1933 and died in poverty in Paris in 1939. |
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