ORDERS

Readings Orders 0

DEMANDS

Readings Demands 0

Memoirs Of an anti-Semite
[Paperback - 2007]
Out of Stock
Availability in 4-6 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: $18.95
Our Price: Rs.3245 Rs.2920
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.325
Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: New York Review Books | ISBN: 9781590172469 | Pages: 320
Shipping Weight: | Dimensions:

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.

Gregor von Rezzori was born in 1914 in Chernivtsi in the Bukovina, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now part of Ukraine. In an extraordinarily peripatetic life von Rezzori was succesively an Austro-Hungarian, Romanian and Soviet citizen and then, following a period of being stateless, an Austrian citizen.The great theme of his work was the multi-ethnic, multi-lingual world in which he grew up and which the wars and ideologies of the twentieth century destroyed. His major works includeThe Death of My Brother Abel,Memoirs of an Anti-Semiteand his autobiographical masterpieceThe Snows of Yesteryear.He died in his home in Donnini, Italy in 1998.

Bestsellers in Fiction

View All