Memoirs of an anti-Semite : a novel in five stories / Gregor von Rezzori ; introduction by Deborah Eisenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rezzori, Gregor von.

Contributor:

Eisenberg, Deborah

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Standardized Title:

Memoiren eines Antisemiten. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--Romania--Fiction.

Antisemitism.

History.

Romania--History--1914-1944--Fiction.

Romania.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxii, 287 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2008]

Summary:

When "The New Yorker" published Gregor von Rezzori's " Troth" in 1969, the story created a sensation. Never before had there been such an intimate chronicle of the seductions of hate. Subtitled a novel in five stories, "Memoirs of an Anti-Semite" traces the sentimental education of a restless, complex, and contradictory man from youth to late middle age. In " Skushno, " the adolescent Gregor is disgraced and exacts revenge on the Jewish boy who is a rival for his aunt's affection. " Youth" finds him on the run from his aristocratic family, supporting himself as a window dresser, and enmeshed in an unhappy affair with a Jewish woman he calls the " black widow." Vienna in the years leading up to the Anschluss is the setting for the tale of betrayal, " Troth." And in " Pravda, " the final story, an older man wanders the streets of Rome and reckons with a life held in thrall by passion and prejudice.

Contents:

Skushno

Youth

Löwinger's Rooming House

Troth

Pravda.

ISBN:

9781590172469

1590172469

OCLC:

144228071

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