Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679731825 (0679731822)
Publish date: January 30th 1991
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Jewish,
World War II,
German Literature,
Short Stories,
Holocaust,
Romania,
Fiction
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...