Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories by Rezzori, Gregor Von

Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590172469)

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Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories by Rezzori, Gregor Von

Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories

$18.95
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories by Rezzori, Gregor Von

Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a period that coincides with the twentieth-century's ugliest years. Central to each episode is what might be called the narrator's Jewish Question. He is no Nazi. To the contrary, he is apolitical, accommodating, cosmopolitan. He has Jewish friends and Jewish lovers, and their Jewishness is a matter of abiding fascination to him. His deepest and most defining relationship may even be the strange dance of attraction and repulsion that throughout his life he has conducted with this forbidden, desired, inescapable, imaginary Jewish other. And yet it is just his relationship that has blinded him to-and makes him complicit in-the terrible realities his era.

Lyrical, witty, satirical, and unblinking, Gregor von Rezzori's most controversial work is an intimate foray into the emotional underworld of modern European history.

Author: Gregor Von Rezzori
ISBN-10: 1590172469
ISBN-13: 9781590172469
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2007
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.10w x 0.68d
By Gregor Von Rezzori
By Gregor Von Rezzori
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Gregor von Rezzori (1914--1998) studied at the University of Vienna and for a time lived in Bucharest. In Germany, after World War II, he became active as a writer and in radio broadcasting and filmmaking activities. American readers first discovered is writing in English with the appearance of his story, "Troth," in The New Yorker. Mr. Rezzori's books include Tales from Maghrebinia, Oedipus Triumphs at Stalingrad, The Hussar, The Snows of Yesteryear, The Death of My Brother Abel, and Anecdotage. He lived with his wife in a village near Florence, Italy until his death.

Deborah Eisenberg is the author of three collections of short stories and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the Rea Award, and three O. Henry Awards. She lives in New York City.

Translated by Joachim Neugroschel and the author

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