“Lo splendore triste dei denigrati”: il Viaggio in Galizia di Joseph Roth

Starting from Claudio Magris’ fundamental reflection on the relationship between the Eastern-Jewish tradition and German-language literature on the basis of Joseph Roth’s works, the contribution focuses the attention on Roth’s Reise durch Galizien published in 1924, analysing through a close reading the three reports that make it up and trying to recognize, in comparison with his other works of journalism, non-fiction and narrative written in the same years or later, the points of discontinuity or anticipation, the specificities of the genre and the constant themes.