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"Although he is now remembered as a novelist, Roth was better known as a journalist in his lifetime, and it was through journalism that he made a living. He was a master of the feuilleton, the short sketch which has an element of reporting but which transforms small scenes into revelations about the inner nature and destiny of an entire society or regime... The myth of the feuilleton insists that it must be written at a cafe table, and Roth soon had an honored place with the other Berlin literati in the Cafe des Westens or the Romanisches Cafe, talking, drinking, and inhaling their delicious reek of leather door-curtains, rain-moist fur collars, cigar smoke, coffee, and fresh newspapers."