Memoirs of an Anti-Semite - Hardcover

Gregor Von Rezzori

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670467839 ISBN 13: 9780670467839

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1981

Synopsis

This is a European classic. Set in Rumania, Austria, Germany and Italy between the last century's world wars, this is a novel of great beauty about men and the histories that define them. Our hero tells of his childhood: his passion for hunting, his love of the wild landscape of Rumania, his ridiculous social snobbery. He leads us through his youth, and between fantastic and colourful stories of Bucharest in the late twenties and early thirties, he dissects his own complicated, at times agonizing, development as a moral creature. We are with him as the Nazis take over Austria; as his own anti-semitism - already such a mixture of belief, caprice and compromise - is shaken to its core. And later on, we meet him as a much older man, one haunted by his own protean character, by the beautiful, but tragic web of memories and events that together form history, and by the greatest love of his life, a beautiful Jewess. 'Here is a work that tackles - without reproof, without illusions, and without shallow moral judgements; by turns engaged and detached, funny and sad, tender and heartless - the phenomenon of anti-Semitism...the tragedy that changed the face of Europe and the world' - Bruce Chatwin.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Set in Central Europe between World Wars I and II, this work comprises five interrelated stories that depict one man's ambivalent, at times obsessive, relations with Jewish friends and lovers--including his Jewish wife.

About the Author:

Gregor von Rezzori was born in 1914 in the Bukovina. He studied at the University of Vienna, and became active as a writer, radio broadcaster and film-maker in West Germany after World War II. He is a prize-winning author who has slowly emerged as a classic writer of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0670467839
• ISBN 13: 9780670467839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 287