Spider's Web

Joseph Roth's Spider's Web is a prescient political novel of Weimar Germany, tracing the rise of Theodor Lohse, a humiliated ex-officer who converts resentment into power through espionage, nationalist intrigue, and antisemitic conspiracy. Written in a taut, journalistic style sharpened by irony and psychological acuity, the book stands in the literary context of postwar European disillusionment, ...