The writer Joseph Roth died of alcoholism in Paris in May 1939. He was buried in a Catholic cemetery, but denied full rites as he had not been baptized. Otto von Habsburg, claimant to the defunct ...
Toward the close of Keiron Pim’s new biography Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth, we’re told to imagine the great, complex Austrian writer in Saint-Sulpice, which he may or may not have visited.