Right and Left

“[A] remarkably prescient novella prefiguring the collapse of morality and the rise of Nazism” by the celebrated Austrian author of The Emperor’s Tomb ( Publishers Weekly ).   With tragic foresight, Right and Left , first published in 1929, evokes the nightlife, corruption, political unrest, and economic tyranny of Berlin in the twenties, the same territory covered in Roth’s trenchant reportage.   After serving in World War I, Paul Bernheim returns to Berlin to find himself heir to his