Gregor von Rezzori
Birth date: May 13, 1914
Died: April 23, 1998
Gregor von Rezzori's Books
There are plenty of good books which you gulp down and then forget. And there are those rare excellent books which are made and meant to stay so that you choose to take your time to read them. 'The Snows of Yesteryear' belongs to the latter.I'm not an avid reader of self biographies, but I'm always ...
Four stars is more accurate as the book was very well written. But I have so many other favorites it wouldn't be fair to give it more than three that basically says "I liked it". My problem with the book was my own unfamiliarity with the writer and his works and the fact that world history is not s...
A fine book by a very interesting manhttp://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/arts/gregor-von-rezzori-83-chronicler-of-a-lost-europe-dies.html?pagewanted=all&src=pmThe book is a compilation of 5 thinly-masked autobiographical remembrances, focusing in the main on his youth and late adolescence in the easte...
Through the first three stories, I felt I was reading something enriching but not terribly enjoyable. It wasn’t dull, the writing was good and the story well set, but it did seem long on monologue. Then I got to the fourth story, “Troth,” which was nothing short of magnificent. What made it magnific...
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